How to uninstall ruby on FreeBSD 8.0?

[Wilson Wang]

Dear all,

I am so stupid to install ruby in a wrong way so that I don't know how
to uninstall it from my server (OS: FreeBSD 8.0) now.

I did the following things:

1. wget ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org//pub/ruby/1.....1-p378.tar.gz

2. tar xzvf ruby-1.9.1-p378.tar.gz

3. cd ruby-1.9.1-p378

4. sudo make install


I just found the version I installed is not proper for my computer; it
should be for "amd64-freebsd8" rather than "x86_64-freebsd8.0". However,
I don't know how to deinstall it! There is no "deinstall" instruction in
the Makefile. Can anyone help me solve this problem? Thank you very
much!

Sincerely,
Wilson

 

[Jason Stewart]

Hi Wilson,

Everything should be in /usr/local unless you changed the prefix in
the configure script.

/usr/local/lib/ruby,
/usr/local/bin/{ruby,ri,erb,irb}

May I suggest the ruby19 port from the ports system, or if you want newer, rvm?
http://www.freebsd.org/ports
http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/

Regards,
Jason

 

[Wilson Wang]

Hi Wilson,

Everything should be in /usr/local unless you changed the prefix in
the configure script.

/usr/local/lib/ruby,
/usr/local/bin/{ruby,ri,erb,irb}

May I suggest the ruby19 port from the ports system, or if you want
newer, rvm?
http://www.freebsd.org/ports
http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/

Regards,
Jason

Hi Jason,

Thanks for your prompt reply!
No, I did not change the prefix in the configure script.
Therefore, do you mean that I can easily remove all of the dependent
files in /usr/local/lib/ruby and /usr/local/bin/{ruby,ri,erb,irb}?

More specifically:
rm -r /usr/local/lib/ruby
rm -r /usr/local/bin/ruby
rm -r /usr/local/bin/ri
rm -r /usr/local/bin/erb
rm -r /usr/local/bin/irb

I know how to install ruby19 from the ports system.
However, I was so stupid trying to download the source code and
installed it by my way...
Thank you very much! I will never do these silly things again!


To Dan,

Thanks for your guidance!
I will try it!
Thanks again!

Sincerely,
Wilson