[SOLVED] How to Remove America's Army - Kubuntu 10.04

[xtremeOsiris]

Ok so I'm super new to Linux and was trying my skills at installing America's Army 2.5 from a .run file. Got it installed but couldn't figure out how to run it. Learned there is a "shortcut" in the usr/local/bin folder called armyops. Tried running that through the terminal but was unsuccessful. Next I found the source directory to be in usr/local/games/armyops and there is an uninstall script in there but I have no idea how to run it. I get to that directory in the terminal and type uninstall or sudo uninstall and get a message saying no uninstall script found. Using Dolphin I try to right click and delete or highlight and delete but no option to do so. I check permissions and they are all greyed out. Folder takes up 2 gigs and I need it gone. Can anyone point me in the right direction please

[Ole Juul]

Re: How to Remove America's Army - Kubuntu 10.04

I have no idea what kind of program this is, but for new installs that don't have an icon, I type the name of the program on the command line or hit Alt-F2 and type it there. If that doesn't work, perhaps the program is broken or lacks dependencies. Is there a README?

Edit:
It just occurred to me that you could need to set permissions to executable by doing chmod + x filename.

[xtremeOsiris]

Re: How to Remove America's Army - Kubuntu 10.04

America's Army is a game that I guess from what I have read post-install is no longer supported with Linux. This excerpt is straight from the readme but I dont know what to do with it.

There is
a script in the game's directory called "uninstall"
for this purpose. Alternately, you can delete the
game's directory and (as the user who installed the
game) ~/.loki/installed/armyops.xml ...

This is what is in the unistall script:

#! /bin/sh
#### UNINSTALL SCRIPT - Generated by SetupDB 1.6 #####
DetectARCH()
{
    status=1
    case `uname -m` in
      amd64 | x86_64) echo "amd64"
         status=0;;
      i?86 | i86*) echo "x86"
         status=0;;
      90*/*)
		  echo "hppa"
		  status=0;;
	  *)
		case `uname -s` in
		  IRIX*)
			echo "mips"
			status=0;;
      AIX*)
      echo "ppc"
      status=0;;
		  *)
			arch=`uname -p 2>/dev/null || uname -m`
            if test "$arch" = powerpc; then
             echo "ppc"
            else
             echo $arch
            fi
			status=0;;
		esac
    esac
    return $status
}

DetectOS()
{
 os=`uname -s`
 if test "$os" = OpenUNIX; then
   echo SCO_SV
 else
   echo $os
 fi
 return 0
}

if which loki-uninstall 2> /dev/null > /dev/null || type -p loki-uninstall 2> /dev/null > /dev/null; then
  UNINSTALL=loki-uninstall
else
  UNINSTALL="$HOME/.loki/installed/bin/`DetectOS`/`DetectARCH`/uninstall"
  if test ! -x "$UNINSTALL" ; then
    echo Could not find a usable uninstall program. Aborting.
    exit 1
  fi
fi
"$UNINSTALL" "/usr/local/games/armyops/.manifest/armyops.xml" "$1"

That give any clues on how to uninstall?

[claydoh]

Re: How to Remove America's Army - Kubuntu 10.04

From a terminal:

sudo sh /usr/local/games/armyops/uninstall.sh

In linux just typing in a command assumes the file being run is in a certain set of paths, like /bin and /usr/bin.

/usr/local/bin is not one of those $PATH's, so you have to run it with the 'sh' command

Or , as the readme says, you can simply delete the armyops folder in /usr/local/games

[xtremeOsiris]

Re: How to Remove America's Army - Kubuntu 10.04

I tried to delete the folder graphically with no luck. Still learning the terminal commands for such. I did what you mentioned above and this is what happens.

matt@oliver:~$ sudo sh /usr/local/games/armyops/uninstall.sh
[sudo] password for matt: 
sh: Can't open /usr/local/games/armyops/uninstall.sh
matt@oliver:~$

Permissions issue?

[claydoh]

Re: How to Remove America's Army - Kubuntu 10.04

Not having the game installed, I may have mistyped the actual file name - it may just be 'uninstall' and not 'uninstall.sh'

actually I forget how old the game is, I don't think it is 'sudo aware', among other things

sudo sh

enter your sudo password

su

cd /usr/local/games/armyops

this will move you to the armyops directory

./uninstall

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[xtremeOsiris]

Re: How to Remove America's Army - Kubuntu 10.04

Sweet!!! I think that did it. Now from my reading there is no registry to worry about, correct? Also the folder was 2 gigs yet when I executed the command the hard drive barely even did anything. Do I need to clear a trash folder or temp folder? This goes in general, what kind of maintenance needs to be done to keep a system healthy?

Thank you very much for your help.

[claydoh]

Re: [SOLVED] How to Remove America's Army - Kubuntu 10.04

No registry in Linux, and any configuration files for that game will be in a hidden folder in your home dir, as mentioned in the readme for armyops

the game is 100% self contained so all it really did to uninstall is to delete the game folder

you can check your trash from within Dolphin, and if you want you can add a trash plasmoid to your panel or desktop. You usually don't need to mess with the /tmp dir.