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 Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 12:39 pm Post subject: KDE 3.3 leftover files? |
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Since I have my Gentoo on a (relatively humble) 5 Gig partition, and since I've been installing anything that I can think of recently (from Open Office through Gimp to Wesnoth), I'm slowly but surely beginning to run out of disk space. In the process of house cleaning, I have noticed a few directories like
/usr/kde/3.3
/root/.kde3.3
which take up over 100 megs altogether. I'm wondering why those are still there, since I'm using kde 3.4.1. So why are those files there? Do I need them at all? (so is it safe to delete?). Anywhere else that I should hunt for leftovers that I can get rid of (except for the usual portage temp dirs)?
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moocha
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| Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 2:49 pm Post subject: |
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Make sure you've emerged the gentoolkit package via | Code: | | emerge app-portage/gentoolkit |
then run equery on the directories to see what package owns the files in there: | Code: | | equery belongs /usr/kde/3.3 |
If no package claims to own those files, they're probably safe to get rid of. If a package appears to own one or more of the files in there, you may want to re-emerge that package so it compiles against the new KDE. This should cause emerge to remove that package's files from /usr/kde/3.3 and place them in /usr/kde/3.4, where they belong.
The /root/.kde3.3 directory however most certainly doesn't belong to any package - it's the settings directory for the old KDE installation (3.3). Take a peek around there to make sure there aren't any of your own documents lying around. You can safely delete it then.
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chronophobic
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| Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 5:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Code: | chronophobia ~ # equery belongs /usr/kde/3.3
[ Searching for file(s) /usr/kde/3.3 in *... ]
kde-base/kdebase-3.3.2-r3 (/usr/kde/3.3)
kde-base/arts-1.3.2-r1 (/usr/kde/3.3)
kde-base/kdelibs-3.3.2-r9 (/usr/kde/3.3)
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So far so good. I should really learn that equery is the tool to use in this kind of situations...
What comes next confuses me a bit...
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chronophobia ~ # emerge -s kdelibs kdebase arts
* kde-base/kdelibs
Latest version available: 3.4.1-r1
Latest version installed: 3.4.1-r1
Size of downloaded files: 16,458 kB
Homepage: http://www.kde.org/
Description: KDE libraries needed by all kde programs
License: GPL-2 LGPL-2
* kde-base/kdebase
Latest version available: 3.4.1-r1
Latest version installed: 3.4.1-r1
Size of downloaded files: 21,907 kB
Homepage: http://www.kde.org/
Description: KDE base packages: the desktop, panel, window manager, konqueror...
License: GPL-2
* kde-base/arts
Latest version available: 3.4.1-r2
Latest version installed: 3.4.1-r2
Size of downloaded files: 952 kB
Homepage: http://multimedia.kde.org/
Description: aRts, the KDE sound (and all-around multimedia) server/output manager
License: GPL-2 LGPL-2
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I have all these packages (that the files belong to) but they're all a different version and I do NOT have version 3.3 installed. I ran a find to get an impression of how many "thingies" (files, dirs, whatever) contain *kde*3.3* and I get the impression it's quite a lot (even if I ignore all the ones in /usr/portage etc...
So what am I supposed to do now? Seems like at some point some removal prcedure messed up and left me with a bunch of kde 3.3 legacy files... Safe to delete? And can is there any way in hell I can check if this has happened to other stuff?
Edit: strike that as stupid... emerge -s only shows _latest_ verison... I do have 3.3.2 something or other installed, actually. How can I see what depends on it so badly?
| Code: | chronophobia ~ # equery depends kde-base/kdebase-3.3.2-r3
[ Searching for packages depending on kde-base/kdebase-3.3.2-r3... ] |
man equery states that depends is not yet implemented. It seemed to "think" quite a bit before it gave me no reply, so I'm not so sure... Other suggestions?
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You have multiple versions of kdelibs, kdebase, and arts because these ebuilds are slotted - the ones from KDE 3.3 installed into the "3.3" slot, and the ones from 3.4 into the "3.4" slot.
Try to check whether emerge --depclean would remove them: | Code: | | emerge -pv --depclean |
(note the -pv, that'll prevent depclean from doing anything, since we just want to see what'd happen). If depclean wants to remove them, they're clearly not needed and you can remove them via | Code: | | emerge --unmerge =kde-base/kdebase-3.3.2-r3 =kde-base/arts-1.3.2-r1 =kde-base/kdelibs-3.3.2-r9 |
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I tried emerge --depclean -p already and it didn't show anything (I run it fairly regularly to clean unwanted stuff). It has zero results. I have a "unclepine" script and I did try to use it to find out if anything will break by unmerging the old kde version (no success).
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Okay, I unmerged all the old things and ran a --depclean to make sure nothing else was unneeded. Also used unclepine to get rid of 1-2 things I no longer need. I'm not sure why it slotted the KDE in the first place, but I think I'll leave it at that and add one to the "no idea what happened, don't care tho if it doesn't break anything" cathegory.
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| Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 11:52 pm Post subject: |
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You might want to try
| Code: | | emerge --prune kdebase arts kdelibs |
followed by a
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linux_girl
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| Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2005 12:35 am Post subject: |
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| FishB8 wrote: | You might want to try
| Code: | | emerge --prune kdebase arts kdelibs |
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hell yeah work for me like a charm:lol: got more free space
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