Adept drives me mad. Every day.

[dkaddict]

Please help if u can.

How do I get rid of Adept? I am using Kubuntu Feisty but have never rated Adept so have Synaptic for an app install GUI. Adept works reasonably well I suppose. I used it to upgrade from Edgy and all went well. The bit that drives me insane is 'Adept Notifier'. Basically, this piece of software just will not leave me alone. Even when there are no updates, it keeps hogging my system resources. I have had to utilise the 'Runaway Process Catcher' in order to give my system some room to breathe. Even when I tell 'Runaway Proc Catch' to 'STOP' Adept Notifier, it only stays stopped for a short while. After an hours uptime, my processor fan is screaming because of Adept wanting all the resources for itself. I am pretty certain that Adept Notifier is the cause of these woes because it stops after I 'sudo apt-get update' in bash or the equivalent in Synaptic.
I just want Adept gone. I can live with Synaptic and 'apt' alone. If I attempt to remove adept with Synaptic or Apt, I get a huge list of dependencies () which will also be removed and which would in turn render my OS useless.
Anyone solved such a dilemma? I have had a sniff about here, at Ubuntu forums, and with Google to no avail. Please help me out if you can.

Big thanx in advance

PS- Aside from this relatively minor annoyance, Kubuntu outperforms XP in every department. I am a very happy customer.

PEACE

dk

[jankushka]

Re: Adept drives me mad. Every day.

i just right clicked on the icon in the system tray,
told the thing to stop and to never start again.
the sw is still istalled, but it isn't started anymore.

if that doesn't work for you, how about:

sudo apt-get autoremove adept-notifier

see if that helps.

[penguin.ch]

Re: Adept drives me mad. Every day.

I've simply "purge-removed" Adept (incl. all parts) by means of Synaptic and replaced the notifier by this script 8)

[jankushka]

Re: Adept drives me mad. Every day.

very popular amongst us this "adept", isn't it? :P

[penguin.ch]

Re: Adept drives me mad. Every day.

very popular amongst us this "adept", isn't it? :P

As unnecessary as the System Settings, I'd say

[dkaddict]

Re: Adept drives me mad. Every day.

Thanx for replying. I tried getting rid of Adepr-Notifier in Synaptic but it is saying that in doing so I will also uninstall
Adept
Adept-Notifier
Kubuntu-Desktop
and
language-selector-qt

Will my system be ok if I removed them too?

I tried the system tray as mentioned above yet have no 'adept-notifier' in my system tray.

So I tried 'apt-get autoremove adept-notifier' only to be told that in doing so I will also be uninstalling the following (cut from terminal. I apologise for the length)

dkaddict@dkaddict-knotebook:~$ sudo apt-get autoremove adept-notifier
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
emodule0-screenshot python-crypto knetwalk kpat kde-amusements
kdepim libxtrap-dev ksokoban kolf emodule0-wlan blinken
python-zopeinterface python-twisted-names krec korn libxmuu-dev
python-twisted-core kshisen kmoon kmahjongg ksig kwifimanager
kcharselect kjumpingcube kcoloredit artsbuilder kdessh kanagram
libpth20 katomic kleopatra kdegames-card-data kruler
linux-headers-2.6.20-15-generic ktux libatk1.0-dev klettres
kgoldrunner kbackgammon kpoker dirmngr kdepim-kfile-plugins
emodule0-language libkiten1 kpackage kenolaba liburi-perl
kblackbox python-twisted-web libfame-0.9 libpango1.0-dev
atlantikdesigner konsolekalendar klatin kfloppy kstars ttf-dustin
ksame kbruch libdecoration0 python-twisted-runner libpvm3
libkdegames1 linux-headers-2.6.20-15-386 libhtml-parser-perl
libpisock9 emodules0-all keduca kandy emodule0-mail libpostproc0d
kdeedu-data kdemultimedia-kappfinder-data libcairo2-dev kmplot
kweather kalzium ksirc libdjconsole0 librss1 klinkstatus klickety
libdirectfb-extra ksayit emodule0-photo
linux-headers-2.6.20-13-generic libxp-dev kmouth kalarm
kworldclock mpeglib kalzium-data kdewebdev emodule0-deskshow
kdegames kicker-applets amor emodule0-taskbar kdict
x11proto-trap-dev ktouch libdirectfb-dev ktnef x11proto-record-dev
kdeaccessibility emodule0-flame kbounce kvoctrain kdetoys
kimagemapeditor atlantik python-twisted-mail tidy libtidy-0.99-0
kwordquiz emodule0-moon libdb4.3++c2 ktron ttf-sjfonts ksync
kdenetwork libtiff-tools kttsd x11proto-scrnsaver-dev
libgnomecanvasmm-2.6-1c2a dcoprss ksysv kwin4 kuser klettres-data
kreversi kdf libgtk2.0-dev libksba8 kspaceduel kig
python-twisted-lore python-twisted-conch gnupg-agent juk
python-twisted-news emodule0-mixer python-twisted-words
emodule0-rain klines fifteenapplet kfaxview kstars-data
emodule0-cpu emodule0-uptime edict python-twisted lskat
libarts1-mpeglib kaddressbook-plugins kgamma transcode
kfilereplace kommander libdjconsole-data libxpm-dev
linux-headers-2.6.20-13-386 kdeutils kdegraphics kaboodle
x11proto-print-dev khangman linux-headers-2.6.20-13
linux-headers-2.6.20-14 linux-headers-2.6.20-15 emodule0-mem
libindex0 kanjidic emodule0-net linux-headers-2.6.20-14-generic
ksmiletris libarts1-audiofile kxsldbg quanta kbattleship kiconedit
libmac2 kdeadmin kpilot kasteroids kfouleggs libmal1 libkdeedu3
libkgantt0 knewsticker emodule0-tclock libhtml-tree-perl
emodule0-snow ksnake kiten emodule0-winselector eyesapplet
emodule0-slideshow libwww-perl kdat indi kdeedu kpercentage
superkaramba kjots kfax secpolicy binfmt-support ksirtet kmines
kdvi kget pinentry-qt libhtml-tagset-perl libxss-dev kgpg
libid3-3.8.3c2a konquest kate-plugins libboost-python1.33.1
kolourpaint python-twisted-bin libxtst-dev gpgsm gnupg2
kdeaddons-kfile-plugins emodule0-alarm x-dev emodule0-forecasts
libarts1-xine linux-headers-2.6.20-14-386 ktuberling kturtle
ktimer libmpeg3-1 quanta-data kmid kteatime kverbos
emodule0-weather kodo
The following packages will be REMOVED:
adept adept-notifier amor artsbuilder atlantik atlantikdesigner
binfmt-support blinken dcoprss dirmngr edict emodule0-alarm
emodule0-cpu emodule0-deskshow emodule0-flame emodule0-forecasts
emodule0-language emodule0-mail emodule0-mem emodule0-mixer
emodule0-moon emodule0-net emodule0-photo emodule0-rain
emodule0-screenshot emodule0-slideshow emodule0-snow
emodule0-taskbar emodule0-tclock emodule0-uptime emodule0-weather
emodule0-winselector emodule0-wlan emodules0-all eyesapplet
fifteenapplet gnupg-agent gnupg2 gpgsm indi juk kaboodle
kaddressbook-plugins kalarm kalzium kalzium-data kanagram kandy
kanjidic kasteroids kate-plugins katomic kbackgammon kbattleship
kblackbox kbounce kbruch kcharselect kcoloredit kdat
kde-amusements kdeaccessibility kdeaddons-kfile-plugins kdeadmin
kdeedu kdeedu-data kdegames kdegames-card-data kdegraphics
kdemultimedia-kappfinder-data kdenetwork kdepim
kdepim-kfile-plugins kdessh kdetoys kdeutils kdewebdev kdf kdict
kdvi keduca kenolaba kfax kfaxview kfilereplace kfloppy kfouleggs
kgamma kget kgoldrunner kgpg khangman kicker-applets kiconedit kig
kimagemapeditor kiten kjots kjumpingcube klatin kleopatra klettres
klettres-data klickety klines klinkstatus kmahjongg kmid kmines
kmoon kmouth kmplot knetwalk knewsticker kodo kolf kolourpaint
kommander konquest konsolekalendar korn kpackage kpat kpercentage
kpilot kpoker krec kreversi kruler ksame ksayit kshisen ksig ksirc
ksirtet ksmiletris ksnake ksokoban kspaceduel kstars kstars-data
ksync ksysv kteatime ktimer ktnef ktouch ktron kttsd ktuberling
kturtle ktux kubuntu-desktop kuser kverbos kvoctrain kweather
kwifimanager kwin4 kwordquiz kworldclock kxsldbg
language-selector-qt libarts1-audiofile libarts1-mpeglib
libarts1-xine libatk1.0-dev libboost-python1.33.1 libcairo2-dev
libdb4.3++c2 libdecoration0 libdirectfb-dev libdirectfb-extra
libdjconsole-data libdjconsole0 libfame-0.9
libgnomecanvasmm-2.6-1c2a libgtk2.0-dev libhtml-parser-perl
libhtml-tagset-perl libhtml-tree-perl libid3-3.8.3c2a libindex0
libkdeedu3 libkdegames1 libkgantt0 libkiten1 libksba8 libmac2
libmal1 libmpeg3-1 libpango1.0-dev libpisock9 libpostproc0d
libpth20 libpvm3 librss1 libtidy-0.99-0 libtiff-tools liburi-perl
libwww-perl libxmuu-dev libxp-dev libxpm-dev libxss-dev
libxtrap-dev libxtst-dev linux-headers-2.6.20-13
linux-headers-2.6.20-13-386 linux-headers-2.6.20-13-generic
linux-headers-2.6.20-14 linux-headers-2.6.20-14-386
linux-headers-2.6.20-14-generic linux-headers-2.6.20-15
linux-headers-2.6.20-15-386 linux-headers-2.6.20-15-generic lskat
mpeglib pinentry-qt python-crypto python-twisted
python-twisted-bin python-twisted-conch python-twisted-core
python-twisted-lore python-twisted-mail python-twisted-names
python-twisted-news python-twisted-runner python-twisted-web
python-twisted-words python-zopeinterface quanta quanta-data
secpolicy superkaramba tidy transcode ttf-dustin ttf-sjfonts x-dev
x11proto-print-dev x11proto-record-dev x11proto-scrnsaver-dev
x11proto-trap-dev
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 245 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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After unpacking 462MB disk space will be freed.

Surely I must need some of these apps to keep my OS running?

Thanx again.

dk

[penguin.ch]

Re: Adept drives me mad. Every day.

Will my system be ok if I removed them too?

In short: yep

--

You may as well disable the "triggers" (instead of actually removing anything):

ROOT # mv /usr/share/autostart/adept_notifier_auto.desktop \
     /usr/share/autostart/adept_notifier_auto.desktop.exitus
ROOT # mv /usr/share/applications/kde/adept_notifier.desktop \
     /usr/share/applications/kde/adept_notifier.desktop.exitus

This, however, you would have to "redo" subsequent to any update / upgrade.

[jankushka]

Re: Adept drives me mad. Every day.

...the heck is going on?

I tried getting rid of Adepr-Notifier in Synaptic but it is saying that in doing so I will also uninstall
Adept
Adept-Notifier
Kubuntu-Desktop
and
language-selector-qt

Will my system be ok if I removed them too?

this is exactly what i get by doing the "apt-get autoremove" thing from command line.
and, yeah, it looks all right.
adept and adept-notifier is what you want to remove...so, that's good.
kubuntu-desktop is a meta package (meaning there's nothing in it, only dependencies).
it gets removed whenever you remove anything that is in kubuntu-desktop's dependencies list...and it's all right.
language-selector-qt is some fancy utility that depends on adept, so it's ok too.

now, why your command line "apt-get autoremove" wants to remove all that stuff, i don't know.
it could be that some version of some package you have installed has wrong dependencies...
but then synaptic should do the same.
well, whatever, it looks awfully wrong and wants to remove to much stuff.
so, don't do that.

the removal via synaptic removes things as expected.
so, go ahead with that...

[dkaddict]

Re: Adept drives me mad. Every day.

Ok. Thanks again for all of your replies.

Sorry I have been a while answering.

I thought apt autoremove was wanting to remove too many apps. I fancy it may have something to do with Enlightenment DR17. I installed it ages ago but it didn't work so I trashed it. I think there are loads of its dependencies lurking about on my HD.

Gonna try to sort it out.

Nice one

dk

[jankushka]

Re: Adept drives me mad. Every day.

As unnecessary as the System Settings, I'd say

Network Settings: my favourite!!!

[mchuskie]

Re: Adept drives me mad. Every day.

now, why your command line "apt-get autoremove" wants to remove all that stuff, i don't know.

Because "autoremove" removes, automatically, all the packages listed under "The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required", as well as the package you specify.

[Shabakthanai]

Re: Adept drives me mad. Every day.

I am way above my skill level in trying to help, but I don't know where you are in your learning curve, so I will try to help you, if possible. If Adept is installed, click on the Adept Manager in the System folder. Type in your Administrator password and when the program opens, type Adept in the find area. Then Adept features will appear. Click on Adept Notifier (the blue arrow in front of it). When the item opens scroll down and click on remove. Then close that by clicking on the arrow again. Go to the top of the page and clidk on Apply Changes. That will remove Adept Notifier from your computer. I didn't like Adept at first, however, as I have become accustomed to using it, I like it better than any other system that I have used in the past. Once you get the hang of it, it makes things fast and easy. Hope this helps.