maemo.org Bugzilla – Bug 9891
Unable to remove unwanted applications
Last modified: 2010-09-29 20:46:47 UTC
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SOFTWARE VERSION: 3.2010.02-8.203.1 EXACT STEPS LEADING TO PROBLEM: (Explain in detail what you do (e.g. tap on OK) and what you see (e.g. message Connection Failed appears)) 1. Open app manager 2. Tap "uninstall" 3. Try to find unwanted applications so they can be removed. 4. They're not listed as removable EXPECTED OUTCOME: Applications I want to remove should be visible so I can get rid of them and free up space ACTUAL OUTCOME: Can't find them, so I can't get rid of them and they're wasting space on my device. REPRODUCIBILITY: (always, less than 1/10, 5/10, 9/10) Always OTHER COMMENTS: There are applications installed by default that I'm never going to use. Specifically the games (blocks, chess, mahjong, marbles) and Ovi Maps (Maemo mapper does the job and actually works, which Ovi Maps doesn't). None of these unwanted applications are available for removal on the application manager, and they can't be removed from the command-line as for some unaccountable reason, there are dependencies that would need mp-fremantle-203-pr to be removed as well (and that sounds like it might be important, even though "dpkg -L mp-fremantle-203-pr" only returns "/.": # dpkg -P nokia-maps-core dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of nokia-maps-core: nokia-maps-ui depends on nokia-maps-core (>= 2.0.28.14). nokia-maps-maplets depends on nokia-maps-core. mp-fremantle-203-pr depends on nokia-maps-core (= 2.0.35.6+0m5). dpkg: error processing nokia-maps-core (--purge): dependency problems - not removing Errors were encountered while processing: nokia-maps-core Since space on the device is limited, it should be possible to remove unwanted applications.
Thanks for the report. According to related bug 3602 this will come in some future maintenance release.
Sorry, that plan was discarded for Fremantle some months ago - see Bug 3602 Comment #45
(In reply to comment #2) > Sorry, that plan was discarded for Fremantle some months ago - see Bug 3602 > Comment #45 > Oh well, at least that means that effectively this bug has been confirmed as being a problem. And it means I've got about 8M of my root filesystem wasted with unwanted rubbish - about 4% of the filesystem.
Quim: Does this mean that this will be fixed in Harmattan?