[freenet-support] technical help

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Decided to give freenet a try, trid to install it to my desktop but
didnt like all the files so i tried to create a file for freenet and
drag them there. Now im unable to uninstall freenet, or even access it
at all. im doing this on a linux machine, is there a command i can type
into a terminal in order to uninstall and re-install again?

[Steve Dougherty]

Keeping the default installation location would avoid that problem. To
start Freenet run ./run.sh start from its installation directory. You can
uninstall Freenet by deleting it.

Decided to give freenet a try, trid to install it to my desktop but didnt
like all the files so i tried to create a file for freenet and drag them
there. Now im unable to uninstall freenet, or even access it at all. im
doing this on a linux machine, is there a command i can type into a
terminal in order to uninstall and re-install again?
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Post by Steve Dougherty
Keeping the default installation location would avoid that problem. To
start Freenet run ./run.sh start from its installation directory. You can
uninstall Freenet by deleting it.

There actually is an uninstaller software available on Linux:
In the installation directory, such as ~/Freenet, there is subdirectory
"Uninstaller", which contains a file "uninstaller.jar".

So you could run it by the command:
java -jar ~/Freenet/Uninstaller/uninstaller.jar

The benefit over deletion is:
- The uninstaller should delete the cron job to start Freenet at boot. Keeping
the cronjob can cause trouble when re-installing, it might start twice then,
which causes it to crash.
- The uninstaller should also delete icons such as on the desktop, in the menu
for starting programs, etc.