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Installation path changes and addition of Makefile

Written for linux-purge by Jarno Suni on 2023-04-23

If you install or update now using the instructions given before, it will install linux-purge executable in /usr/bin, not in /usr/local/bin. Also related files have been moved respectively. "remove-linux-purge.sh" for removing and "update-linux-purge" for updating the application are installed automatically. You can update the application as before.

On the other hand, if you clone the repository to your computer and install using Makefile by command "sudo make install" then, the application is installed in "local" directories, instead; you could uninstall that by "sudo make uninstall", respectively. Thanks to Nanda Lopes <https://launchpad.net/~nandalopes> for the Makefile. The "local" installation is used more eagerly, if it is present. If you install/update the old way, it will remove the "local" installation first.

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New version available

Written for linux-purge by Jarno Suni on 2021-03-02

Version 1.0.134-4e2e7f5 should not change the function of linux-purge much, but I have tried to make the code more robust. --clear_boot option has got most noticeable changes, even some fix, but that option is rarely needed, I think. I once needed such a function after I did not-so-clean upgrade and had kernels from the old release left there.

Tip: Customize the checklist user interface

Written for linux-purge by Jarno Suni on 2021-01-27

You may want to have perhaps a bit better looking user interface for checklist when using the --choose option (or maybe --fix). By default, linux-purge uses dialog interface. Because (as far as I know) dialog package is not installed by default in any Ubuntu release and in its different flavors, linux-purge uses whiptail as fallback. Dialog offers more options and more classy looks so you may want to install dialog by running

sudo apt install dialog

in terminal. If you have dialog installed for some reason, but you prefer whiptail, you can use --interface=whiptail option.

Added script for updating linux-purge easily

Written for linux-purge by Jarno Suni on 2020-09-15

Run

sudo update-linux-purge

If update-linux-purge is not installed already, run

sudo sh -c 'cd /usr/local/bin/ &&
wget -N https://git.launchpad.net/linux-purge/plain/update-linux-purge &&
chmod +x update-linux-purge'

to install the updating script.

Thereafter you can update linux-purge by simply running

sudo update-linux-purge

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