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kastel07 is offline kastel07
2010-01-01 , 00:41
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Hello Everyone, I am a new owner of the Nokia N900 and so far I am very pleased with the device. While snooping around the repositories I came across a few pidgin protocols that add aim to the im chat function. After using it for a bit I realized that that it is not tuned enough for me to keep installed so I tried to uninstall it. Unfortunately, when attempting to uninstall the Pidgin protocols using the uninstall function in application manager it gave me the error "Unable to Uninstall. Some application packages are needed by other applications." Is there another method to uninstall this protocol? Thanks in advance.
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2010-01-02 , 00:02
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I have the same problem.
 

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SirTurbo is offline SirTurbo
2010-01-02 , 00:22
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If you get the message that the plugin ist still needed by another... and then open "details" - isnīt there shown WHICH other app needs the plugin you are trying to uninstall?
 
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2010-01-02 , 00:24
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I have the exact same issue with uninstalling Pidgin protocols.
 

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2010-01-02 , 00:25
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Originally Posted by SirTurbo View Post
If you get the message that the plugin ist still needed by another... and then open "details" - isnīt there shown WHICH other app needs the plugin you are trying to uninstall?
the app which needs the plugin is not listed in the apps list.
 
Croc is offline Croc
2010-01-02 , 03:20
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gainroot then run apt-get -f install
after that you will see list of things and command to clean it up (apt-get autoremove) run it and it all left overs should be gone now
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wakkamis is offline wakkamis
2010-01-06 , 05:19
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having this issue uninstalling the pidgin extra protocols (bonjour and sametime). it says that it is required by the app: pidgin sametime support (2.6.3-3nix1). and i dont see that anywhere to uninstall.

i tried the apt-get after gaining root and all i get is "
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?"

so is there some other way to get rid of that app? i swear its laughing at me and i would love to deleet it in the face!

any help would be awesome!
 

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Croc is offline Croc
2010-01-06 , 06:52
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did you reboot n900 and try again?
you got rootsh installed?

sudo gainroot
apt-get -f install
apt-get autoremove

this worked for me every time
 

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wakkamis is offline wakkamis
2010-01-06 , 14:43
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yep yep and more yep.

so far nothing has worked.

following those apt-get commands i get something about another process is using something.

any ideas.
 
oliverbenduhn is offline oliverbenduhn
2010-01-06 , 16:21
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you have to close the program manager before you can use apt-get.

Otherwise you get this message:

E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?"
 

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