Where do I find Acrobat reader after Install

[kent41]

I installed Acrobat but I cant find it in any menus, where would it be.

[kent41]

I installed Acrobat but I cant find it in any menus, where would it be.

I think I found the Acrobat I installed in the my-applications directory .

Acrobat is taking too much memory How do I uninstall Acrobat?

It was a DotPup app.

[muggins]

if it was installed as a dotpup you should be able to uninstall it using the puppy package manager by selecting Install_or_remove_pkgs

[kent41]

if it was installed as a dotpup you should be able to uninstall it using the puppy package manager by selecting Install_or_remove_pkgs

Hi muggins

Yes I installed Acrobat as a DotPup but I don't see it in Puppy package manager. I also do not see the Install_or_remove_pkgs in the puppy package mannager I only see a install. I am using puppy 2.12

[WhoDo]

Yes I installed Acrobat as a DotPup but I don't see it in Puppy package manager. I also do not see the Install_or_remove_pkgs in the puppy package mannager I only see a install. I am using puppy 2.12

When you click the Install icon on the desktop, you get a dialogue with TWO options for managing packages.

The first one, at the top, opens the window you have which is the dotpup downloader.

The second one, at the bottom, opens the pupget package manager from where you can install or remove extra packages, including aliens that have been registered there.



BTW, if you use http://www.tinypic.com to upload sample screenshots, you will take some pressure off the storage of the forum. Just a suggestion, nothing more.

Hope that helps

[kent41]

Thanks WhoDo for the suggestions.

We need to stop this post because it is not going anywhere.
Kent

[WhoDo]

Thanks WhoDo for the suggestions.

We need to stop this post because it is not going anywhere.
Kent

Sorry, kent41. The trouble with being old and blind is that you sometimes miss the obvious. Clearly you were already in the Pupget package manager. Were you connected to the 'net when you started it?

Another way to uninstall any dotpup is to click on the original dotpup file (if you haven't already deleted it, that is). Then you can choose to uninstall when it offers that option.

Finally, the third option is to download Pupbegone from this forum - Pizzasgood's work I think but don't crucify me if it isn't - and that will allow you to uninstall pretty much anything, even programs that come standard in the Puppy package like Seamonkey.

Hope that helps. I'll clean my glasses and reread before posting next time!

Cheers

[kent41]

WhoDo

Your eyes are just fine I changed the screen shot to show I could not find the app.

Thanks but I have since removed the app.

Your eyes are fine.

Kent

[muggins]

than there's the fourth option of just opening rox-filer & deleting all associated files. luckily with acroreader, this is a small job, involving removing 2 directories, and 1 file.

(N.B. I'm not sure if, with the newer pup2xx file system, if files are installed in the same location. if these directories aren't in /root, than check /usr)


on my system, 1.08, i just have to delete:
/root/my-roxapps/AcrobatReader-5.0
/root/my-applications/adobe
/root/my-applications/bin/acroread

also, i'm curious when you say acroread uses to mush memory. is this RAM, or hdisk space? (or usb?) i haven't upgraded to the latest acroreader, as 5.0 does everything i need, and i know that every newer version uses more ram memory. in the dark ages, when i was a windows user, i used to have to hunt around for version 4.0, as it flew in comparison to the newer, bells&whistles version.

[muggins]

whoops! late post.

[kent41]

muggins

The memory was from freememapplet I think it is the space left for me to store my data in my ext3.

Thanks for the info

[MU]

those dotpups that install to /my-....... often were Roxapps created by GuestToo by hand. They don't register to pupget.
They often include an uninstall-script, that you find with a right-click on the application.

But I had no look at this acrobat.
Of course the method from muggins to delete the files works.

Mark