Ubuntu Netbook Remix

how to remove netbook remix ?

Asked by darkmood

hello, i m new with linux and after testing netbook remix i would like to remove it but, like i said i am newbie.
can you help me to remove it, thanks by advance

sorry for my bad english, is not my mother language

chris

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Eldin (pieter-schutz) said : 		#1

It would seem to me that simply running
# sudo apt-get --purge remove ume-launcher
and setting your panels back to system default would make netbook remix uninstalled...
It's only a launcher tuned up with customized panel so if you remove the launcher and reset the panels it will be deleted...

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Mateu (lord-byron202) said : 		#2

I can not remove netbook.

Removing ume-config-netbook ...
Removing `diversion of /etc/X11/xorg.conf to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.orig by ume-config-netbook'
dpkg-divert: rename involves overwriting `/etc/X11/xorg.conf' with
  different file `/etc/X11/xorg.conf.orig', not allowed
dpkg: error processing ume-config-netbook (--remove):
 subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 ume-config-netbook
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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Eldin (pieter-schutz) said : 		#3

as i said in my previous message you shouldn't type ume-config-netbook but ume-launcher

good luck i have done it myself

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aussiebuddha (au-mario-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#4

i have the same issue here. even if you apt-get remove ume-launcher it still complains about the ume-config-netbook.

by the way, in my case i'm just trying to remove ume-config-netbook, because since i installed it i started to have problems with netwbook remix not appearing after pressing the home button.
and yes i have an atom cpu.

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aussiebuddha (au-mario-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#5

i found a workaround.
if you're sure your xorg.conf is ok. you can do this for the remove to work

delete this file
/var/lib/dpkg/info/ume-config-netbook.postrm

and then apt-get remove ume-config-netbook

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apease (adampease) said : 		#6

I tried

sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/info/ume-config-netbook.postrm /var/lib/dpkg/info/ume-config-netbook.postrm-bak
sudo apt-get remove ume-config-netbook

This seemed to have no effect and give no error messages. Can anyone describe how to eliminate the netbook desktop interface and use a normal Ubuntu desktop and menu bar instead?

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apease (adampease) said : 		#7

ok, the ubuntu forum had the command

sudo apt-get remove window-picker-applet maximus go-home-applet human-netbook-theme ume-launcher

which does remove the netbook application for me. Now the next part is getting the standard Ubuntu applets...

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Best apease (adampease) said : 		#8

There's an even simpler solution, if you don't mind leaving the software modules for the netbook interface in place, just not active. Go to System->Preferences->Switch Desktop Mode

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darkmood (vanpyr) said : 		#9

Thanks apease, that solved my question.

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de bisi (jbisenius) said : 		#10

2 thumbs up apease, just what I was looking for!! :)