G_khan
February 19th, 2013, 03:04 AM
Hello,
In searching for all kinds of ways to do away with Zeitgeist, which for me is an unnecessary program, and many will agree with me, is borderline big brother, I have found a nice solution on hindering zeitgeist. There are solutions such as making it so that the program does not write to the splite file, or removing it completely and losing many important programs. I tried the latter at first, and found that I couldn't view my files, which was annoying. And so I persisted and found a nice solution: break the dependencies of the program.
Using aptitude (which is pretty sweet, so if you don't have it, install it), run the command aptitude keep-all. This essentially breaks dependencies by basically telling your computer you have installed every single program in your computer. That way, you can run the command sudo apt-get remove --purge zeitgeist, you get to keep all those programs you'd otherwise lose.
Insofar as I know, this did the trick for me. I basically removed anything with the word zeitgeist in it, except for libzeitgeist and a few others. With the above command, I think I've succeeded in hindering this shady program. Of course, I might be wrong, and so this is the reason why I am posting this message.
In searching for all kinds of ways to do away with Zeitgeist, which for me is an unnecessary program, and many will agree with me, is borderline big brother, I have found a nice solution on hindering zeitgeist. There are solutions such as making it so that the program does not write to the splite file, or removing it completely and losing many important programs. I tried the latter at first, and found that I couldn't view my files, which was annoying. And so I persisted and found a nice solution: break the dependencies of the program.
Using aptitude (which is pretty sweet, so if you don't have it, install it), run the command aptitude keep-all. This essentially breaks dependencies by basically telling your computer you have installed every single program in your computer. That way, you can run the command sudo apt-get remove --purge zeitgeist, you get to keep all those programs you'd otherwise lose.
Insofar as I know, this did the trick for me. I basically removed anything with the word zeitgeist in it, except for libzeitgeist and a few others. With the above command, I think I've succeeded in hindering this shady program. Of course, I might be wrong, and so this is the reason why I am posting this message.