howto remove dead app icon from screen?

[braindrop]

so there i was, making the most of my sd card and  installing any app that sounded interesting...  at one point i flipped through the tabs and saw an icon titled \'newapp\' wich does nothing when tapped except pop up a message about it being an unknown application.

so how do i get rid of it? thought of uninstalling it if i only new what it is...

[Stubear]

The best way is to remove the whole app. To find out which package it belongs to

grep newapp.desktop /home/root/usr/lib/ipkg/info/*

This should return the name of the package that contains newapp  - this can then be removed

Another option is to open the Tab tool and delete the newapp icon from the tab its on - this wont delete the app however

Stu

[braindrop]

thanks for the speedy reply.  i tried as you suggested except on mine i found i have to go /usr/lib/ipkg/info/*
but anyway found NewApp.desktop under /opt/QtPalmtop/apps/Applications/NewApp.desktop
but no other references or info to be found.
i thought about deleting the icon but i dont just want to forget about it in case there is more to it i dont know about. but maybe there isnt.

[macdigas]

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ipkg search should do the trick, too. And you don\'t have to fiddle with paths.