Comments on: How to remove Skype installer from OS2008 menu

By: Как удалить инсталятор Skype из меню OS2008 интернет-планшета | The Tablet Blog

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:20:35 +0000

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By: Marius Vollmer

Marius Vollmer — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:26:06 +0000

Right, removing the .desktop file is not clean, but (almost) equivalent to installing-then-removing skype.

If you want to force the removal of skype-installer, use "dpkg --force-depends --remove".

In all cases, you'll get the menu entry back with the next update to the skype-installer package, so none of the solutions is really clean.

The cleanest thing to do is probably to use "apt-get remove skype-installer" and let it remove the osso-software-version-rx44 meta package. But then you need to install OS updates manually. But that's not so bad.

By: Marcin Juszkiewicz

Marcin Juszkiewicz — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:10:04 +0000

@Quim: this is not so nice method so I prefer to not document it on a wiki. Cleanest is install Skype and remove it later (like Eismaus wrote). My way can also end in removing "osso-software-versions-rx44" (or how that package was named) in next upgrades.

@Marius Vollmer: this is hack not method :) But removing desktop file is not nice solution neither.

By: Marius Vollmer

Marius Vollmer — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:41:37 +0000

This is emphatically not the clean way. Don't butcher the package database like this.

The clean way is to remove the .desktop file that is responsible for the menu entry:

# rm /usr/share/applications/hildon/skype.install

By: Quim

Quim — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:08:15 +0000

Hi, this (useful) blog entry will be forgotten over time, but your lines could resist time and be found by more users at http://wiki.maemo.org

Try it out! (and thanks for the blogging)

By: Eismaus

Eismaus — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:38:24 +0000

This is probably the clean away.

The newby way is to install skype and deinstall it again. Logo gone. Works for me, and for gizmo too.