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Author:  shplad [ Sat Jul 16, 2005 11:20 am ]
Post subject:  Safest way to remove all lirc files without doing damage
Hi all:

Well, my lirc is still only working intermittently. So, in an effort to try to get things working,
I want to completely remove all traces of lirc files.

Using the "whereis" or "locate" commands, I can see that there are actually lirc files
in quite a few different directories. Can someone tell me how I could quickly delete
all of them without having to find each one and remove it individually? "Apt-get remove"
doesn't work when you didn't install it using Apt. :-)


thanks



shplad
Author:  shplad [ Tue Aug 16, 2005 2:39 pm ]
Post subject: 
Okay, well I tried reseating the card. That made no difference at all.

So I removed the basics of lirc with "make uninstall" and that cleaned up a lot of the main lirc files.

However, afterwards, when I ran a "find" command, I noticed there were
still some files with lirc in their names. I also thought to look at Synaptic
and there still seem to be some lirc-related .deb packages installed. Can
anyone tell me if it's safe to remove these? (filenames found below) .

Code:
root@box:~# find / | grep lirc

/dev/lircresults.txt
/home/mythtv/.lircrc
/usr/include/lirc
/usr/include/lirc/lirc_client.h
/usr/lib/liblirc_client.a
/usr/lib/liblirc_client.la
/usr/lib/liblirc_client.so
/usr/lib/liblirc_client.so.0
/usr/lib/liblirc_client.so.0.0.0
/usr/local/include/lirc
/usr/share/aclocal/lirc.m4
/usr/share/doc/liblircclient-dev
/usr/share/doc/liblircclient-dev/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/liblircclient-dev/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/liblircclient-dev/copyright
/usr/share/doc/liblircclient0
/usr/share/doc/liblircclient0/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/liblircclient0/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/liblircclient0/copyright
/usr/share/modass/packages/lirc-modules-source
/usr/src/ivtv-0.3.2s/doc/README.lirc
/usr/src/ivtv-0.3.2s/utils/lircd.conf
/usr/src/ivtv-0.3.2s/utils/lircd-g.conf
/var/lib/dpkg/info/liblircclient-dev.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/liblircclient-dev.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/liblircclient0.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/liblircclient0.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/liblircclient0.postinst
/var/lib/dpkg/info/liblircclient0.postrm
/var/lib/dpkg/info/liblircclient0.shlibs
/var/lib/dpkg/info/lirc-modules-source.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/lirc-modules-source.postrm
root@box:~#




Thanks for your help and your patience.



Newmoon
Author:  toonces [ Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:43 pm ]
Post subject:  couple of ways
find / -name '*lirc*' -exec rm -f {} ";"

or

find / | grep lirc | xargs rm -f

or

find / -name '*lirc*' | while read fname
do
rm -f $fname
done

or

for file in `find / | grep lirc`
do
rm -f $file
done

blah blah.. all should work
Author:  shplad [ Wed Aug 17, 2005 2:35 pm ]
Post subject:  EDIT: uninstalled lirc and reinstalled lirc-0.7.0
Well, apparently it wasn't such such a good idea to remove some of those
files. I removed what was recommended. When I ran Mythfrontend from a console,
I got some error to the effect of: "Myth could not start. The library or module
lirc_client.so.o is missing " (Again, not the exact error, but something to that effect.)

I had uninstalled the liblircclient0 0.7.1pre2-2 from Synaptic. Who knew Myth would
refuse to start without it? Better yet, why was it even installed? I thought R5A12 only
came with 0.7.0 installed.

Anyways, I then uninstalled the liblircclient0 mentioned above and installed
lirc 0.7.0 from source, according to Robert.pdx's revised HOWTO? I assumed that
would install everything Myth would need. Wrong again. It complained
again that
Myth could not run without the lirc_client files.


So I reinstalled just only the "liblircclient0" 0.7.1pre2-2" deb package, hoping that
it wouldn't interfere with the 0.7.0 I installed from source. Wow, the remote worked
perfectly. For about 15 minutes. Then it promptly stopped working again, exactly the
way it had before I started this mess.
(See my other thread, if you're kind enough.)

Does anyone have any ideas? Is there a liblirccllient0 0.7.0 Deb available somewhere?
Do I really need to have that deb installed when I already installed lirc from source?
What else could be going wrong? I'm really ready to give up here. Somehow,
I don't think lirc should be this difficult to troubleshoot.

Thanks for any guidance.


shplad
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