Suggestions on How to Clean-Up a Trisquel 7 to 8 Installation
Hi everyone, I want to open a conversation about how to maintain a system that is upgrading from previous installs of Trisquel. I know some of you may shrug and say, hey just do a clean install, its WAY easier. Howver, I think we learn more about GNU + Linux if we learn to fix our problems where they are as well.
I encountered some issues that I managed to get through during my upgrades which involved needing to make sure I didn't have any non-Trisquel installations and Repositories existing on my computers. Here are a couple of my issues. Please feel free to add your own.
1) After Trisquelizing from Ubuntu 14.04 to Trisquel 7 and then upgrading to Trisquel 8, I noticed the "Add/Remove Programs" GUI app seems to not exist. How do I install it?
2) After upgrading to Trisquel 8 from Trisquel 7, the "Files" file explorer still exists eventhough it looks broken under "MATE" (the default DE of Trisquel 8). How do I remove the "Files" app?
- Install the "gnome-app-install" package (installed by default on both Trisquel 8 and Trisquel 8 Mini);
- Remove the "nautilus" package (not installed by default on both Trisquel 8 and Trisquel 8 Mini);
I think the packages are called 'gnome-packagekit' and 'nautilus' respectively.
PackageKit provides an interface that is different from the one installed by default with Trisquel 8 (Mini or not). It is an alternative.
You are right.
I get an error when trying to view the help file. Should I install something that's missing?
> 1) After Trisquelizing from Ubuntu 14.04 to Trisquel 7 and then
> upgrading to Trisquel 8, I noticed the "Add/Remove Programs" GUI
> app seems to not exist. How do I install it?
$ sudo apt install gnome-app-install
> 2) After upgrading to Trisquel 8 from Trisquel 7, the "Files" file
> explorer still exists eventhough it looks broken under "MATE" (the
> default DE of Trisquel 8). How do I remove the "Files" app?
The default file manager in Belenos was Nautilus.
$ sudo apt remove nautilus
The default file manager in Flidas is Caja.
$ sudo apt install caja
I have another issue. For some reason on my Trisquelized laptop I have two "Main Menu" options in my "Control Center". How do I keep only the correct one for Trisquel 8?
> I have another issue. For some reason on my Trisquelized laptop I have two
> "Main Menu" options in my "Control Center". How do I keep only the correct
> one for Trisquel 8?
I think mozo is the correct menu editor. The other menu editors I am aware of are alacarte and menulibre. I just installed both, and their appear as 'Main Menu' and 'Menu Editor' respectively, so it is possible that the extra menu editor you have installed is alacarte.
$ sudo apt remove alacarte
If that doesn't work, do the following for each of the menu editors that appear in Control Center.
- launch the menu editor
- from a terminal, run 'xprop'
- click on the window of the menu editor
- in the terminal output, look for the line beginning 'WM_CLASS(STRING) =' to get the name of the menu editor
One of the menu editors should be mozo. Once you know the name of the other one, uninstall it.
I removed alacarte and now there is just one "Main Menu". Good enough for me. Thanks!