KnoppMyth works GREAT on my system! However, I'd like to uninstall specific components that I won't use (MythNews, MythWeb, etc). Obviously, I can issue a "make uninstall" if I was compiling by hand. How do I accomplish this with KnoppMyth? Thanks.

apt-get remove mythmodulename

believe it or not tab completion works here too to figure out what they are called.

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Thanks Xsecrets. I'll give that a shot as soon as I'm done upgrading to R5A12

Have a good one.

You can do an apt-get remove on the unwanted modules (see the man page for details) but it's probably not recommended. To remove them from the menus you'd need to edit the XML files under /usr/share/mythtv/ that define those, again probably not recommended unless you really know what you're doing.

Actually, apt-get remove doesn't do anything. I have been able to "hide" the menu items I don't want to see by editing the XML files but it would be really nice if I can just uninstall the modules. Guess I'll make a request for this. Thanks for everyone's help.

no "apt-get remove" by itself won't do anything, but if you do like I said in my first post and "apt-get remove mythmodulename" of course change to the correct module, and maybe using tab completion to figure out what they are all called it should remove them, although I'm not sure it will clean off the menu items. you may still have to edit the xml for that.

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When someone shows you where the machine that dispenses the clues is, you're supposed to bring your own quarters. Thus "see the man page for details". I'm betting you didn't bother. if you had you'd have learned how to run the command, not to mention that Xsecrets gave you an example too.

Step one, enter this command and READ the output:

That will show you the options for running apt-get. This should very quickly lead you to:

And BTW you can list more than one module, but that should be obvious if you read the man page.

First off, I know exactly how to use the man pages AND the command line quite thouroughly. I run Gentoo on my laptop and it was on my MythTV box too until I installed KnoppMyth. I really don't appreciate your comments. Second, when running "apt-get remove mythnews", the result is:



OBVIOUSLY, there is some form of dependency broken there OR mythnews is installed and named something different.

Tab completion revels nothing named "mythnews" so my guess is that it might be the "mythbrowser" since everything else that appears is pretty much named what you would expect. Xsecrets, thank you for the info. You've been very helpful.

tjc, in the future if you're not in the mood to be helpful then please, don't post anything. Comments like yours above only make you sound like a jerk-off.

mythbrowser!=mythnews

from my R5A12 install using tab complete I get this, so you may have already removed it and didn't realize it.

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That's completely possible. I did another complete install and this time I did see it listed. Who knows what happend. Anyway, thanks again for all of your help Xsecrets.