Description

I use GNOME on Fedora atomic. There is an icon in overview of an installed app, nvtop. How can I figure out how I installed the app and how can I uninstall it?

  • The first step is to click “App details” in the overview section. GNOME software then tells me there are no details for the app. Searching for nvtop in Software doesn’t yield any result. GNOME Software is of no use here. I can confirm that it is not a flatpak with the name nvtop by running flatpak list | grep -i "nvtop".
  • Lookup which command is invoked by nvtop
$ which nvtop
/usr/bin/nvtop
  • lookup the desktop entry
$ sudo find /usr -iname "*nvtop*.desktop"
/usr/share/applications/nvtop.desktop

which gets

[Desktop Entry]
Name=nvtop
GenericName=GPU Process Monitor
Type=Application
Terminal=true
Exec=nvtop
Icon=nvtop
Categories=System;Monitor;
X-AppImage-Integrate=false

How many distroboxes are running? distrobox ls. The one distrobox that is running can’t find a package with the name nvtop either dnf list installed | grep nvtop. And trying to run it from within distrobox can’t find it as well. bash: nvtop: command not found

rpm-ostree can’t find anything

$ rpm-ostree uninstall nvtop
error: Package/capability 'nvtop' is not currently requested

edit:

I can also locate nvtop but that’s of no help to me

/usr/bin/nvtop
/usr/share/applications/nvtop.desktop
/usr/share/doc/nvtop
/usr/share/doc/nvtop/README.markdown
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/nvtop.svg
/usr/share/licenses/nvtop
/usr/share/licenses/nvtop/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/nvtop.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/io.github.syllo.nvtop.metainfo.xml

locate *.appimage does not return an unknown appimage

edit2:

I just tried installing it via rpm-ostree. I’m getting closer, but still no idea what to do with the result. Rebooting is always a good idea. Rebooting didn’t help.

$ rpm-ostree install nvtop error: “nvtop” is already provided by: nvtop-3.0.2-2.fc39.x86_64. Use --allow-inactive to explicitly require it.

  • Bryan_McCalloway
    12·
    2 months ago

    Did you try to uninstall it with :

    rpm-ostree override remove nvtop

    That’s the way to delete packages from the base tree

  • fortified_banana@beehaw.orgEnglish
    10·
    2 months ago

    If you’re using universal blue images, that comes built into the image (at least on nvidia images for sure). To get rid of it, you’d have to use rpm-ostree override remove to get rid of it.

  • themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works
    4·
    2 months ago

    On fedora and el, nvtop apparently is installed as an appimage. An appimage is just a single executable, that you may delete. You may also delete the .desktop entry from /usr/share.

    • barbaraOP
      3·
      2 months ago

      thanks. You can also install it via the repository, i.e. sudo dnf install nvtop or with rpm-ostree in my case

      removing the desktop entry doesn’t remove the app and hence my problem, does it?

  • QuazarOmega@lemy.lol
    4·
    2 months ago

    What’s the output of rpm-ostree status --verbose? That might give a bit more insight on what’s going on.

    Also regarding this:

    Use --allow-inactive to explicitly require it.

    It seems to suggest that somehow nvtop is already in your base layer, since the manual says this:

    –allow-inactive to allow requests for packages that are already in the base layer.

    I don’t know how that could have happened though

  • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
    2·
    2 months ago

    This is one of the dozens of things where I honestly think, Fedora+KDE would be a better workstation.

    In KDE, showing app entry details would show the exact command ran.

    If you want to find what app that is, search for the launcher in

    /usr/share/applications
~/.local/share/applications
~/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share/applications #I think

    Or do flatpak list --installed or rpm-ostree status