I did sth. stupid and I don´t know how to fix it
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I installed torlaucher extension in Abrowser, because it failed on connecting to the Tor network, I used to watch YT videos only (because of the HTML5 player). The problem is that now I start Abrowser and it appear me a message saying "Unable to start tor, the Tor executable is missing" and then it says "waiting for tor to start" and if I quit it appears "Could not connect to Tor control port". How can i fix that?
P.D: Why when deleting software in GNU/Linux, and then you reinstall it, it seems like if nothing would have happened? I mean, there is no way to delete data, like in Android or Wincrap.
Use the Tor browser: https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html
About your P.D.
How did you remove the software?
There are many ways you can erase software from Trisquel.
It is different to do:
sudo apt-get remove program
than to do:
sudo apt-get purge program
and also
sudo apt-get purge program*
The last way will remove everything about that program, but you gotta be carefull, because it will also remove its dependencies, and that may cause that your sistem brokes.
Yes, I know, but if i reinstall the program, it keeps with its settings, appearance and everything. That´s what I mean when saying that i don´t know any way to delete/remove program´s data in Unix
"P.D: Why when deleting software in GNU/Linux, and then you reinstall it, it seems like if nothing would have happened? I mean, there is no way to delete data, like in Android or Wincrap."
Applications often create configuration files or folders where they store preferences, etc. Those files are usually hidden files in your home folder or in your_home/.config/
For example firefox based browsers create a /home/user/.mozilla folder; gedit preferences are in /home/user/.config/gedit, etc.
That's why if you reinstall an application its preferences remain unless you remove the configuration files.
And the older messier way was to save configuration in ~/.programname/
Ok. Thank you very much! But why apt don´t removes all directories created by the program? or maybe aptitude does?
It's very useful to keep your preferences when reinstalling the system.
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