{"id":2248,"date":"2022-08-30T15:23:17","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T15:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/2014\/01\/05\/cant-uninstall-ati-drivers-after-failed-install-collection-of-common-programming-errors\/"},"modified":"2022-08-30T15:23:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T15:23:17","slug":"cant-uninstall-ati-drivers-after-failed-install-collection-of-common-programming-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/2022\/08\/30\/cant-uninstall-ati-drivers-after-failed-install-collection-of-common-programming-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"Cant uninstall ati drivers after failed install-Collection of common programming errors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been trying to hammer out the installation of the ati proprietary drivers for Ubuntu\/Precise. I have been following the tutorial at http:\/\/wiki.cchtml.com\/index.php\/Ubuntu_Precise_Installation_Guide to no avail. I follow the steps exactly as shown and after everything is all said and done the &#8220;additional drivers&#8221; utility reports no proprietary hardware installed and the system info screen show unknown for the graphics.<\/p>\n<p>During the install i get no errors of any kind and the system reboots normally, just with no ATI card.<\/p>\n<p>So now i want to remove the drivers and go back to the OOB drivers. I run this command<\/p>\n<pre><code>    sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx fglrx_* fglrx-amdcccle* fglrx-dev*\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>and this is the output i receive<\/p>\n<pre><code>    E: Unable to locate package fglrx_12.104-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>The thing that gets me is that the package is in the \/Home folder where the install was run from in terminal. what can I do to point the &#8211;purge function to the directory where the package is at?<\/p>\n<p>The computer is an ACER Aspire 5534 with integrate ATi Radeon HD 3200 set.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time I have delt with and ATi graphics chipset with any linux distro and also this is my first time installing it on a laptop.<\/p>\n<p>Any help will be much appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>Kyle<\/p>\n<p id=\"rop\"><small>Originally posted 2014-01-05 09:32:20. <\/small><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been trying to hammer out the installation of the ati proprietary drivers for Ubuntu\/Precise. I have been following the tutorial at http:\/\/wiki.cchtml.com\/index.php\/Ubuntu_Precise_Installation_Guide to no avail. I follow the steps exactly as shown and after everything is all said and done the &#8220;additional drivers&#8221; utility reports no proprietary hardware installed and the system info [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}