Re: trying to remove wicd
On 9/15/14, tom arnall <kloro2006@gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to get wicd off my system, but am having a problem. All the
> installer utilities say that it's not installed, but 'which' and other
> things tell a different story:
>
> root@debian:~# which wicd
> /usr/sbin/wicd
> root@debian:~#
>
> Also, in spite of the installer messages, there are lots of
> wicd-related files in the system:
>
> tom$ locate
> /etc/dbus-1/system.d/wicd.conf
> /etc/default/wicd
> /etc/init.d/wicd
> /etc/rc0.d/K01wicd
> /etc/rc1.d/K01wicd
> /etc/rc2.d/S18wicd
> /etc/rc3.d/S18wicd
> /etc/rc4.d/S18wicd
> /etc/rc5.d/S18wicd
> /etc/rc6.d/K01wicd
>
> And on and on for about 300 lines of file names
>
> When I do wicd or wicd-client as root, the stuff runs (and does
> nothing but give error messages). wicd is unknown to non-root users:
>
>
> Here is the apt-get message:
>
> root@debian:~#/home/tom/system/wireless# apt-get purge wicd
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Package 'wicd' is not installed, so not removed
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
> root@debian:~#/home/tom/system/wireless#
>
> Likewise with aptitude and dpkg.
>
>
>
> How do I get rid of the stuff?
>
> My goal is to do wireless connection using the command line, but I
> want the wicd stuff off the system before I try to do it.
I rambled on in response to one of the responses you received. Been
sitting here thinking on it after that because of what I encountered,
too, while following your thread. Bzzzz had said install it, that
would mean just "wicd" and not the "wicd-daemon", based on what I
encountered. The reason is "wicd-daemon" is possibly/probably already
installed, and wicd is turning out not to be (installed).. APT indeed
also has wicd as a package of its own as Bob stated Synaptic shows.
Stumbled on this from Debian Wiki while wondering about the whole thing:
https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse#Wicd
You mentioned errors so felt ok forwarding that. It says something
about removing network-manager to get wicd to work. May or may not be
appropriate for your particular error but there it is in case it helps
someone who stumbles on your thread later.
Can't help wondering out loud why wicd AND wicd-daemon if wicd-daemon
is providing the /usr/sbin/wicd? Why isn't wicd installed to
provide... wicd since it exists as a standalone package?
tom, maybe before you purge, do you have time and resources to test if
wicd finally works properly before you switch to command line? I'd try
it myself but wifi, that whole networking via GUI, had it work once or
twice but was never able to master it.. It'll be next year before it'd
ever work on this end..
Good luck with it.. :)
Cindy
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Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA
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