Written by m4r3k and tagged by openSUSE.
Beagle is desktop search software, but I don’t like this weird cool stuff on my desktop. In new zypper from openSUSE 11.0, there are a new options named addlock, removelock, locks. Now it is possible to kick out Beagle forever. :-)
First you have to remove all related package with this command:
zypper remove *beagle*
Now, you have to lock all this packages in status “not installed” by command zypper addlock package-name. You can do this with this command:
zypper addlock *beagle*
Now you have system without Beagle. Thanks to zypper developer for this feature! Enjoy! :)
June 19th, 2008 at 4:55 am
I have not used Beagle for a long time. I moved to recall when it came out. Much faster, less resource and actually finds what you are looking for.
June 19th, 2008 at 7:11 am
I think that first command could be reduced to:
“zypper remove libbeagle1″ and zypper will take care of dependencies and thus uninstall all mentioned packages. Probably the same could be done with locking: it should be enough to lock just libbeagle1 in uninstalled state so any other packages depending on it can’t be installed either. (I have not tried it, but in my opinion it should work.)
June 19th, 2008 at 7:14 am
What the heck is wrong with the new Beagle?
I also didn’t like the previous versions of Beagle, but the new one seems lot faster and more usable. I consider switching from Google Desktop Search (which is also not bloat free) to the new Beagle as soon as I install openSUSE 11.0. Probably over the weekend. Cheers!
June 19th, 2008 at 9:50 am
A to v suse neni neco jako apt-get remove nebo pacman -Rcsn ? Proste odebrat balicek?
June 19th, 2008 at 10:18 am
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June 19th, 2008 at 11:27 am
2Pavol Rusnak: Good point, but this didn’t work for me in Beta 5. Maybe it works in final release, I have no idea.
2dum8d0g: Yes, we have zypper remove, but this addlock keep removed package in removed status.
June 19th, 2008 at 11:33 am
Beagle is the best available desktop search engine. I love it. Or I shall love it until Strigi will have same or better abilities. :-)
June 19th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
What about “zypper addlock *beagle*” ?
Yes, zypper support wildcard :)
June 19th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
2Spyhawk: Good point, I forgot. New feature ;-) But it was my feature request, I should be in shame. :-) Tested, post was updated. Thanks.
June 19th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
Much better:
zypper addlock *mono*
June 30th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
Actually I have done quite the same to my new installations. But my first command looked like this: zypper rm mono-core
And my desktop runs smoothly again - do you know even faster way how to remove all this c**p? ;-)
July 11th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
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