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Jun 30, 2024, 7:23:05 AM6/30/24
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In Linux, deleting files or directories is a fundamental operation that every user must know. Although it may seem like a straightforward task, there are different methods to delete files or directories, each with its specific use case.

This tutorial will provide a step-by-step guide on how to delete files or directories in Linux. We will also walk through the commands you can use to remove files and folders along with their content.

Most Linux distributions come with a GUI file manager that allows you to delete files using a graphical interface. Simply navigate to the file you want to delete, right-click it, and select "Delete" or "Move to Trash."

Make sure you replace filename with the name of the file you want to delete. If the file is write-protected or you don't have sufficient permissions to delete it, you will be prompted to confirm the deletion.

The rm command is the most commonly used command for deleting files, while the rmdir and rm commands with the -r or -R options are used for deleting directories. By following this step-by-step guide, you can now effectively delete files or directories in Linux.

Am a Linux noob. Googling didn't help. List of installed packages unfiltered is absolutely massive (and nothing called dropbox), filtered by "drop" "box" or "dropbox" gives me nothing that looks like it would be it.

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But from what I have gathered so far, the command line installation can be removed by merely deleting the folders/files created by it, as the functionality is linked to the attached Python script (?). So there is no actual app process running or anything beyond the one or two folders created, no background processes etc.

A person more versed in Linux than I am pointed out that the download includes a readme with information on how it works and that new users should use an installer rather than the command line method. Might be a good idea to bring that information onto the site with installation instructions, as Linux beginners... well me at least... would have a hard time finding that readme.

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To answer your question about why we don't have a better un-installation method on linux. People that contribute to Joplin don't uninstall, and people who uninstall don't contribute. That said, it wouldn't be too hard to add an uninstall option to the script, I'll add it to my list (someone else feel free to do this first).

How do I remove the 64bit agent from my linux vps server/host? I sucessfully installed it a couple months ago and its working fine, but I am going a different route now and need to remove it but I can't figure out how. Please advise. Thanks

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04, and when I rigth click on a my flash drive icon (in the Unity left bar) I get two options that have me confused: eject and safely remove.
The closer I came to an answer was this forum thread, which concludes that (for a flash drive) they are both equal and also equivalent to use the umount command. However, this last assertion seems to be false.
If I use umount from the console to unmount my flash dive, and then I use the command lsblk, I still see my device (with nothing under MOUNTPOINT, of course). On the other hand, if I eject or safely remove my flash drive, lsblk does not list it anymore.

So, my question is, what would be the console command/commands that would really reproduce the behaviour of eject and safely remove?

Arranges for the drive to be safely removed and powered off. On the OS side this includes ensuring that no process is using the drive, then requesting that in-flight buffers and caches are committed to stable storage.

umount is perfectly safe for the disk. Once you've done that you have successfully unmounted the filesystem and you needn't worry along those lines. The primary difference between eject and umount doesn't concern the disk at all - rather it is about the USB port's 5v power output.

After umount you can still see your disk listed in lsblk because it is still powered on and attached. umount an internal hard disk's file-system and you'll see the same behavior for the same reason. But when you eject a USB device you power it down and it ceases to draw the 5v it would typically - I think it trickles down to .5v but that class happened a long time ago.

Uninstallation of MediaAgent on Linux machine via CommCell is failing. So, I would like to clean up mediaagent on Linux and push a fresh media agent software onto it. Please help me with the commands to run on linux machine to manually uninstall or clean up MediaAgent.

To make sure I have this correct - - - what I need to do is whilst still in lxd is to first kill lxdbr0 (and and other networking), then I would delete all the containers (this presently needs to done one at a time) and images. Then any storage volumes need to be removed and lastly all storage pools need to be removed. Then, and only then, can lxd be removed.

erm, I just installed lxd on a Lubuntu 16.04 LTS VM with snap and it was only for a quick test, created a container, tested it, deleted it and the associated image, did a sudo snap remove lxd and no error, everything seems to have worked without a glitch. Under /var/snap there is only core, so it seems that no storage is left behind, lxdbr0 is gone too. Seems progress to me.

Suddenly for some reason I can't access Emby at all, not even my library. I'd like to just remove it and reinstall it. I've tried sudo apt-get purge emby but when I go to install it again my installer says it's already there.

That worked. Thanks. To answer your question, when I ran the other command, the terminal window looked like it uninstalled emby and gave no error messages but it was still there when I tried to reinstall it.

So now I've removed and reinstalled emby and it's prompting me for my server address. I've tried the default suggested addresses in the attached screenshot and also each address in my ipv4 information and nothing's connecting. I remember this process being more intuitive the first time I installed emby.

I have a problem, I configured the virtual disk with rclone brownser, when I put the folder in the emby library does not appear, what can I do? In fact, when I mount the disk, it doesn't open a folder, and when I undo the virtual disk, the other folders appear

Good morning, there is no one who can help with this problem, in Windows has Raidrive that works perfectly synchronizing with google drive and team team, in linux tried opendriver, rclone, rclone bownser, overgrive and none can freely access, folders in emby like i said raidriver in windows works great

I'm not an expert with rclone, but there are a lot of community members here who use it. Remember that Emby server runs under a system user called Emby, so you should check the permissions for that user to access to folders.

Those programs all likely run under your user account. This is where it is tricky, emby runs as a server and runs under the user account emby. There is a permissions guide on here somewhere that can help out.

Such dependencies can and should be in a [target.'cfg(windows)'.dependencies] section which removes then from reverb being considered in a build, but so far as I can tell they are still fetched, most likely so lock file can be consistent across platforms.

Dependencies for other platforms are fetched when using cargo fetch or cargo vendor, but not when doing a regular build. The registry contains enough information to produce a valid lock file mentioning these dependencies without having to download the package tarballs.

I searched online and saw that I should uninstall everything found with rpm -qa grep intel, and then delete the /opt/intel folder. I also saw that there should be an uninstaller inside /opt/intel/oneapi/installer, but the installer directory doesn't exist. I also saw there should be an uninstaller in /bin/ and there isn't one.

So I am slightly confused at how the oneapi was installed before, and if the rpm -> delete is still the best approach. Any suggestions on how I can cleanly remove all previous instances of Fortran from the Centos7 LInux system then reinstall it would be much appreciated!

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if you change from a malware/spyware infected windows setup to a linux setup will infections migrate to linux if they were on the computer? (when you are hacked/infected is it the op system that is infected or the hard drive?

In general, hard drives are dumb in sense that they can't execute the virus code, but merely store the virus files that might be later executed through the use or by an operating system (which means they'd have to be written to execute on a specific OS). I say in general, because most consumer grade hard disks don't pack a custom programmable hard disk controller and enough controller's own non-volatile memory to hold a virus that could spread agnostic to operating system it's installed on. That of course doesn't really leave out the possibility the virus that infected the system merely corrupted hard disk's firmware in a way to cause problems on any operating system it's mounted from, or that there could be more advanced firmware viruses targeting enterprise class storage units. And since hard disk controllers are getting more and more sophisticated, and SSDs having a great deal of problems dealing with themselves and more advanced firmwares (and supporting hardware to run them) are needed, I wouldn't put it as too far-fetched, that we'll be soon seeing viruses that specifically target these controllers and can hold operating system agnostic payloads.

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