unmerge opera

[drwebpat]

I thought I'd go ahead and try out opera, and I can say that I don't like it. I'd like to get rid of it and I tried a couple things...

emerge unmerge opera
message was it couldn't find any matching installed packages


emerge -C opera
same error as above

Now I KNOW I emerged it and have run it. I even tried putting the version numbers after it.

Anyone else have this problem?

Pat

[Sylhouette]

Have you tryed

unmerge opera

[klieber]

[drwebpat]

I'll try both of those when I get home tonight. Someone else had a similar problem and on irc (#gentoo) someone told them to use the -C option.

Thanks,
Pat

[Sylhouette]

I had to uninstall nessus and did it this way

emerge unmerge -u nessus

This is the one

[drwebpat]

ok..so I tried

[Flake]

Very strange behaviour !!!!!!!!

i've had opera on and off my disk several times with the simple commands

emerge opera / emerge unmerge opera
(ps. why get rid of opera, i love it! it's so much faster than mozilla & konqueror keeps on crashing!)

well, as a emergency solution you could:

1. all of opera is in /opt/opera, don't delete it just yet.
2. get the opera.tar.gz file, probably in /usr/portage/distfiles/

3. do tar tzf opera.tar.gz > taropera.txt (not x and no v)
4. less taropera.txt, it should give a list of all the packages installed.

5. now very carefully go through that list and see what files could be MOVED non deleted in your opinion. use an editor (i like mc) to get rid of all the dots in front f the lines (replace does this in a second). remove all the lines that even seem to point to something important.

6. mv $(cat taropera.txt) /home/junk/ (not sure about the ()'s )

see if evrythig you need still works.

[rizzo]

man emerge.

That should give the hint to try: