uninstall

[Milos Prudek]

I run "make install" of Python 2.4.4 and now I discovered that I do not like
the default placement of my install. The Makefile does not support
an "uninstall" option.

Is there a way to uninstall Python compiled from sources?

 

[Paul Boddie]

I run "make install" of Python 2.4.4 and now I discovered that I do not like
the default placement of my install. The Makefile does not support
an "uninstall" option.

Is there a way to uninstall Python compiled from sources?

If you're installing from sources "manually", you might want to
consider checkinstall to give you the option of an uninstall for those
software distributions which don't support "make uninstall":

http://www.asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/

I seem to recall at some point doing a checkinstall on one or more
programs, installing the resulting packages, then uninstalling them in
order to remove installed files. That might be one approach you could
take, although it obviously won't restore any files overwritten when
you originally installed Python. That said, Python tends to install
into /usr/local by default and is fairly conservative about where it
puts its files, so it's unlikely that anything was overwritten.

Paul

 

[Milos Prudek]

If you're installing from sources "manually", you might want to

consider checkinstall to give you the option of an uninstall for those
software distributions which don't support "make uninstall":

I know about checkinstall and I often use it. If I remember correctly, Python
failed to work with it. I admit I did not try to use checkinstall this time.