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Happy new year,
yesterday my system kde 514 told me it is going to invite me to have an update to 18.4. I wanted to wait till night time because three Gb is a lot of data. Now, in between, the macbook went to sleep and after I woke it up at night time it only offered me 1965 or so files to update. Clicking on it resulted in the Task % flashing only for a fraction of a second and then nothing. Does that mean I have to delete the whole partition for KDE, loose all the data in the process, and install the new system? I would prefer to find a way to do the changeover via update. Thanks for any advice, cheers, Atmo |
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I am sure nothing so harsh is needed. Which exact distribution are you talking about here? You only give numbers which is not enough to know what exact distribution you have. Also how do you upgrade, with Discover or anything else?
Running an update on the command line in this particular case might me more advisable, as you would at least see some meaningful error messages, but again, since I don't know which kind of package system you use we need more information from you.
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Hallo,
I am using KDE Neon 5.14.0 The system is checking for updates automatically once I open software center and discover. Also I always kept the system updated. My guess is that 1924 files are just to much to handle. Further, when discover tries to start the update, a message box appears telling me that I have several strings of Google earth installed which never worked anyway. I know you shouldn't let anything Microsoft or Google on your System, but now that's what it is. Thanks, Atmo |
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No, that many files should be quite easy to handle, how about running this from a konsole:
This should give you a more detailed output telling you if there are errors. Most errors can be solved by running this:
If the laptop going to sleep causes a problem, you can disable the power save mode beforehand.
Running Kubuntu 22.10 with Plasma 5.26.3, Frameworks 5.100.0, Qt 5.15.6, kernel 5.19.0-23 on Ryzen 5 4600H, AMD Renoir, X11
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Good day Mamorok,
thanks a lot, will work on it straight away. Cheers, Atmo 
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Good morning Mamorok,
yes, Sudo command offered its brains, or rather komplex issues. I'll try to past....:
Great, that worked...., as you see, the dpkg command did nothing, the other one mainly complaining about Google... (who doesn't?) Would there be a way to delete Google? Maybe the updater is working after that, if I am lucky.... Have a nice day, regards, Atmo Moderator Edit: setting code flags to make this scrollable |
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You must have installed the Google thing from a different source, so if it is a .deb package running dpkg <packagename> --deinstall , replacing <packagename> by the exact name of that google package should just do the trick.
If on the other nad you have installed it with a shell script, you would have to check the instructions from that script, usually there should also be an option to uninstall something.
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Thanks Mamarok,
Google Earth came from Google Earth Website. For Linux/Ubuntu, so they state.. My System does not recognize dpkg deinstall command. x@x:~$ dbkg http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb -deinstall No command 'dbkg' found, did you mean: Command 'dpkg' from package 'dpkg' (main) dbkg: command not found x@x:~$ http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb bash: http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb: No such file or directory x@x:~$ Gruesse, Atmo |
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since I cannot do updates anymore and neither delete partially installed Programms ( no uninstallers available..) which jam the OS it might be better to get my files on a stick and try to reinstall the newest version of KDE as stated in the update which crashed my system. Updates installed perfectly fine before, even with the dreadful Google Earth tries. Problem is, I do really need Google Earth, but if it destroys Linux based Os I don't know what to do. ( Google opened but did not work...) Marbel didn't do it for me, it doesn't have the features I need. Thank you very much again for your help, Atmo x@x:~$ dbkg http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb -deinstall No command 'dbkg' found, did you mean: Command 'dpkg' from package 'dpkg' (main) dbkg: command not found x@x:~$ http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb bash: http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb: No such file or directory x@x:~$ dpkg google-earth-pro.list:3 -deinstall dpkg: error: need an action option Type dpkg --help for help about installing and deinstalling packages [*]; Use 'apt' or 'aptitude' for user-friendly package management; Type dpkg -Dhelp for a list of dpkg debug flag values; Type dpkg --force-help for a list of forcing options; Type dpkg-deb --help for help about manipulating *.deb files; Options marked [*] produce a lot of output - pipe it through 'less' or 'more' ! x@x:~$ dpkg help dpkg: error: need an action option Type dpkg --help for help about installing and deinstalling packages [*]; Use 'apt' or 'aptitude' for user-friendly package management; Type dpkg -Dhelp for a list of dpkg debug flag values; Type dpkg --force-help for a list of forcing options; Type dpkg-deb --help for help about manipulating *.deb files; Options marked [*] produce a lot of output - pipe it through 'less' or 'more' ! x@x:~$ dpkg-help dpkg-help: command not found x@x:~$ dpkg-- help dpkg--: command not found x@x:~$ |
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no, you misunderstand the <packagename> part: there you have to type the name of the .deb file you downloaded, not the link to the download
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I believe the command to remove a package is: (sudo) dpkg <package_name> --remove (not -deinstall). Or you could use (sudo) apt remove <package_name>
(for getting help on a command, you put the space between the command name and the dashes: dpkg --help. For reading the text manual for a command use: man <command> e.g. man dpkg) I also wonder if KDE's Marble would be insufficient for your needs?
airdrik, proud to be a member of KDE forums since 2008-Dec.
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Hi Guys,
thanks a lot for your help. Neither remove or delete work. dpkg help is also not available. Guess I am running out of options here.... Marble is really nice, but satellite view is very basic and especially using kmz list waypoints is not an option. The option to include maps is fantastic though. x@x:~$ dpkg dpkg: error: need an action option Type dpkg --help for help about installing and deinstalling packages [*]; Use 'apt' or 'aptitude' for user-friendly package management; Type dpkg -Dhelp for a list of dpkg debug flag values; Type dpkg --force-help for a list of forcing options; Type dpkg-deb --help for help about manipulating *.deb files; Options marked [*] produce a lot of output - pipe it through 'less' or 'more' ! x@x:~$ dpkg google-earth-pro-stable_current.amd64deb-remove dpkg: error: need an action option Type dpkg --help for help about installing and deinstalling packages [*]; Use 'apt' or 'aptitude' for user-friendly package management; Type dpkg -Dhelp for a list of dpkg debug flag values; Type dpkg --force-help for a list of forcing options; Type dpkg-deb --help for help about manipulating *.deb files; Options marked [*] produce a lot of output - pipe it through 'less' or 'more' ! x@x:~$ dbkg http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb -deinstall No command 'dbkg' found, did you mean: Command 'dpkg' from package 'dpkg' (main) dbkg: command not found x@x:~$ y y: command not found x@x:~$ x@x:~$ x@x:~$ dpkg google-earth-pro-stable_current.amd64deb-remove dpkg: error: need an action option Type dpkg --help for help about installing and deinstalling packages [*]; Use 'apt' or 'aptitude' for user-friendly package management; Type dpkg -Dhelp for a list of dpkg debug flag values; Type dpkg --force-help for a list of forcing options; Type dpkg-deb --help for help about manipulating *.deb files; Options marked [*] produce a lot of output - pipe it through 'less' or 'more' ! x@x:~$ dpkg help dpkg: error: need an action option Type dpkg --help for help about installing and deinstalling packages [*]; Use 'apt' or 'aptitude' for user-friendly package management; Type dpkg -Dhelp for a list of dpkg debug flag values; Type dpkg --force-help for a list of forcing options; Type dpkg-deb --help for help about manipulating *.deb files; Options marked [*] produce a lot of output - pipe it through 'less' or 'more' ! x@x:~$ |
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It seems that you aren't that familiar (none of us were at first) with commandline and should take a few minutes to discover the basics. The correct dpkg command would be:
https://www.howtoforge.com/linux-dpkg-command/ It is much easier to use apt/apt-get or the pkcon commands if you don't have a working package manager,ie, Discover, Muon, Synaptic. |
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Hi,
thanks again, that did something: x@x:~$ sudo dpkg -r google-earth-pro-stable_current.amd64deb [sudo] password for x: dpkg: warning: ignoring request to remove google-earth-pro-stable_current.amd64deb which isn't installed x@x:~$ So it claims Google earth is not installed but system is still blocking an update due to multiple google earth installs. I did try to get Google Earth working on KDE a few month ago but never succeeded to get it working properly. There are no files about it in my download folder either. When I start Earth, it fires up to half the frame and then stops. The issue with the updates only started with the big one a few days ago. Before it updated fine with discover. Tricky stuff that is..... Cheers, Atmo |
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Package Names end in .deb You have a typo in Your example. 2. Change to root-user: $ sudo -i Do: # apt search earth 2>/dev/null | grep inst Result will be: blalagoogleearthblabla… Then do: # apt remove blalagoogleearthblabla… Lastly: # exit Should work. Example: $ apt search wget 2>/dev/null | grep inst wget/bionic-updates,bionic-security,now 1.19.4-1ubuntu2.1 amd64 [installed] To remove it: # apt remove wget Don't do this. It's an only example, not an instruction. But You get the idea. |
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