On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Andrew wrote:
> Hi,
> Silly me went and installed a source package on the wrong machine. The
> package in question is Mail-SpamAssassin-2.64.tar.bz2 and the system is
> Mdk-10. When I do 'make uninstall' I get:
>
> Uninstall is unsafe and deprecated, the uninstallation was not
> performed.
> We will show what would have been done.
>
> no packlist file found: at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3/ExtUtils/Install.pm
> line 332.
> make: *** [uninstall_from_sitedirs] Error 2
>
> So how do I uninstall it?
>
> TIA,
> Andrew
>
Terse answer: use `rm'
A slightly more detailed answer: identify what was installed by looking
for a known file from the package, then remove everything installed at
the same time.
If you logged the output of 'make install', that will tell you what was
installed. If you didn't, the first file installed was probably
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/{$PERL_VERSION}/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm - you can
use `ls -l' to see when you installed that, then remove anything
installed in the next few seconds (depending on your machine's speed).
Pointers, based on my ancient install of 2.55:
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/{$PERL_VERSION}/Mail/SpamAssassin/
/usr/man/man1/ # {sa-learn,spamassassin,spamd,spamc}.1
/usr/man/man3/ # {Mail::SpamAssassin*}
/usr/bin/ # programs as listed for man1
My 2.55 install also updated /usr/lib/.../SpamAssassin/.packlist ,
/usr/lib/.../perllocal.pod , /etc/mail/spamassassin , and
/usr/share/spamassassin. I'd normally refrain from editing
perllocal.pod on the grounds that superfluous entries pointing to a
no-longer existent spamassassin are unlikely to hurt you. The rest can
probably just be removed.
Of course, if you're going to install it on a different box, that is an
opportunity to log what it installs, and even to take a 'before' copy of
perllocal.pod so you can see what gets changed (then, if the perl
versions are equal and other perl packages are similar, you could diff
before and after and reverse the diff against the machine where you are
uninstalling).
But, at the end of the day I don't think it's a massive package and if
you haven't used it on the 'wrong' machine you'll only get back three or
four MB of space so it probably isn't worth the bother. If you did use
it there, clear out the ~/.spamassassin directory.
Alternative answer: recover to the backups from before
you installed it ;-)
HTH
Ken
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