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I installed "scons". Bad idea, but that is another story for another thread. I wish to remove it but the minimal docs included with it, and google, have no mention of uninstall. The silly program doesn't use make (bad! Bad!) so I can't figure out how to get rid of it. I simply want to get rid of it, every trace of it, off my hard drive. Scons is bad and most go! Please help me!
Thank you in advance.
Last edited by moob8; 09-15-2007 at 01:32 PM.
Reason: spelling
I installed "scons". Bad idea, but that is another story for another thread. I wish to remove it but the minimal docs included with it, and google, have no mention of uninstall. The silly program doesn't use make (bad! Bad!) so I can't figure out how to get rid of it. I simply want to get rid of it, every trace of it, off my hard drive. Scons is bad and most go! Please help me!
Thank you in advance.
I have solved similar problems by using checkinstall. I use checkinstall to create an rpm package from the tar.gz. I install the rpm package and then uninstall the rpm package. That always gets rid of whatever the tar.gz left lying around.
checkinstall can also create slackware packages. I have never used slackware packages but you might try using checkinstall to create a slackware package, install the slackware package, and then uninstall the slackware package.
Well I got rid of it. Using ls and grep and other tools, I examined all files with todays date and all files with a "scons" in the file name. One by one, they were deleted. Scons has been exterminated from my system, the hard way.
edit: jailbait: can I correctly assume that your method would only have worked had I actually used "checkinstall" to install this "scons" thing ahead of time?
Last edited by moob8; 09-15-2007 at 02:10 PM.
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edit: jailbait: can I correctly assume that your method would only have worked had I actually used "checkinstall" to install this "scons" thing ahead of time?
No, it will work either way. If I install from a tar.gz and then install from a rpm package the rpm package installs over the top of all the files that the tar.gz installed. Then when I remove the rpm files no files remain.
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remove scons, uninstall it, get rid of it
