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Post#1 by Jack » 27 May 2014, 03:14

I have a Acer Aspire One Nav50 and I have no DVD/CD writer. I need to remove some programs and there dep files. Can someone help me out? The program are in 002-xorg.xzm and 003-mate.xzm. If there is a scripts to remove program and dep files a easy way please share with me.
I just like Slackware because I think it teach you about Linux to build packages where Ubuntu is like Windows you just install programs you want.

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Re: Help Needed

Post#2 by fanthom » 27 May 2014, 03:30

it's easy:
a) extract module
b) run

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ROOT=squashfs-root removepkg your_package
c) pack module back
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Re: Help Needed

Post#3 by Jack » 27 May 2014, 03:40

I ran xzm2dir on 003-xorg.xzm is that what you mean by "extract module"?
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Re: Help Needed

Post#4 by brokenman » 28 May 2014, 12:10

That is correct.

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mkdir /tmp/unpacked
xzm2dir /my/modules.xzm /tmp/unpacked
ROOT=/tmp/unpacked removepkg your_package
dir2xzm /tmp/unpacked mynewmodulename.xzm
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Re: Help Needed

Post#5 by Jack » 28 May 2014, 15:53

I'll get back when done, or have a problem. Thanks
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Re: Help Needed

Post#6 by Jack » 06 Jun 2014, 01:22

I have a question who built 002-xorg.xzm? I would like who ever did it rebuild one for me. What i want is take out all program that are in the Menu area unless they are needed to boot the system up. The files that are taken out please remove there dependencies too. I try to this but with little luck. If I had a list program and the dependencies I could try again.

I done almost all of 003-mate.xzm so far.
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Re: Help Needed

Post#7 by fanthom » 06 Jun 2014, 05:57

i'm maintaining 002-core.xzm but see my response here:
http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php? ... 501#p25501
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Post#8 by Jack » 14 Jun 2014, 03:11

Will I remove just programs and then I dir2xzm them backup. I rebooted with no luck. I guest I'll stay with what you all will support. I already reinstall it back what I started with. You still have a good Porteus Linux. Maybe someone help me one day and I guest I'm too old almost 67 years old.
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Re: Help Needed

Post#9 by brokenman » 14 Jun 2014, 17:21

Please let me know which programs you want removed from mate. I already have a bare 002 module with nothing in the menu.
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