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DrWilken	2010-07-18 , 22:56
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To remove an application/package using the apt-get command You will need to know the "real" package name.

You can use apt-cache search <keyword> to find it like this (You need to be root (run the "root" command first)):

Code:

N900:~# apt-cache search plastic
black-plastic-theme - Dark theme PACKAGE for N900.

The first part of the output is the "real" package name (black-plastic-theme) - The rest is the description (Dark theme PACKAGE for N900).

Then remove the package using the before mentioned command:

Code:

N900:~# apt-get remove black-plastic-theme

After that I suggest You go into the application manager and remove some stuff... Mainly large games...

(wesnoth is one of them).

Check Your free space in the /home filesystem (where most of the application data is installed) using:

Code:

N900:~# df -h /home
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mmcblk0p2            2.0G      1.5G    375.4M  80% /home

As You can see I've got 375M free in /home (I recently removed wesnoth and wesnoth-data which are quite big - 300+M). OpenArena is also a space killer...

DON'T remove "random" applications as You might end up with a device that needs to be re-flashed...

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Last edited by DrWilken; 2010-07-18 at 23:02.

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