[SOLVED] Installed Byobu and 'make install' and 'packman' isn't removing it-

Ztcoracat · 05-20-2016, 12:00 PM

Hi:

I installed Apricity (Arch based) and I wanted another terminal emulator so I installed Byobu via a tar.bz.
I am not good with Arch as this distro is new to me.

It installed Byobu but it's not working so I'd like to remove it.
I've tried these cmd's to rm it.

Code:

make uninstall
packman remove byobu 
packman -Rsc byobu

When using the above command the terminal returns.

Code:

target not found and 
* No rule to make target 'uninstall'.  Stop.

The binaries are in:

Code:

 ~  whereis byobu                                                 127
byobu: /usr/local/bin/byobu /usr/local/etc/byobu /usr/local/lib/byobu

The directory byobu_5.107 from the tarball was removed with the rm -rf cmd.

How do I remove all of these files in the above mentioned directories?

HMW · 05-20-2016, 12:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ztcoracat

Hi:

I installed Apricity (Arch based) and I wanted another terminal emulator so I installed Byobu via a tar.bz.
I am not good with Arch as this distro is new to me.

It installed Byobu but it's not working so I'd like to remove it.
I've tried these cmd's to rm it.

Code:

make uninstall
packman remove byobu 
packman -Rsc byobu

Hi!

I hope that you used

Code:

pacman

and not 'packman'

pacman does not have a 'remove' switch. You use

Code:

pacman -R[ns] <packagename>

or

Code:

pacman --remove <packagename>

to remove programs.

That said, pacman won't work on things you installed yourself, without using pacman.

See

Code:

man pacman

for more info

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ztcoracat

The binaries are in:

Code:

 ~  whereis byobu                                                 127
byobu: /usr/local/bin/byobu /usr/local/etc/byobu /usr/local/lib/byobu

The directory byobu_5.107 from the tarball was removed with the rm -rf cmd.

How do I remove all of these files in the above mentioned directories?

Well, if it were me, I'd do a simple:

Code:

# rm /usr/local/bin/byobu

etc...

Best regards,
HMW

Ztcoracat · 05-20-2016, 01:04 PM

I mispelled pacman-

The command pacman --remove byobu returned:

Quote:

target not found: byobu

This cmd didn't work for me.

Code:

rm /usr/local/bin/byobu

There are multipule files associated with Byobu and named as such.
Here's a screenshot-
http://i1052.photobucket.com/albums/...13-55-50_1.png

?

HMW · 05-20-2016, 01:44 PM

Hi again!

Like I said above, you simply cannot use pacman to remove programs that you have not installed with pacman.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ztcoracat

This cmd didn't work for me.

Code:

rm /usr/local/bin/byobu

That is because you have to be root. The # sign above in my post shows that you are root, but maybe I should have been more specific.
Try

Code:

sudo rm /usr/local/bin/byobu

or swith to your root account and issue the command as I showed you above.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ztcoracat

There are multipule files associated with Byobu and named as such.
Here's a screenshot-
http://i1052.photobucket.com/albums/...13-55-50_1.png

?

Perhaps use find along with rm -i to find and delete all the files?

Best regards,
HMW

Ztcoracat · 05-20-2016, 02:31 PM

This doesn't make sense. The files are in that bin file in the screenshot.

Running the command you posted as root:

Code:

sifu  ~  sudo rm /usr/local/bin/byobu
[sudo] password for sifu:
rm: cannot remove '/usr/local/bin/byobu': No such file or directory

Ztcoracat · 05-20-2016, 06:34 PM

I also tried:

Code:

cd /usr/local/bin/byobu
sudo rm /usr/local/bin/byobu
rm: cannot remove Is a directory

Would using sudo rmdir byobu work or would that interfere with the regular /usr/bin directory?

I know Korora isn't Arch but for what it's worth I was able to install Byobu. Remove each binary one at a time and also rm the entire emulator from Korora using the commandline utility 'dnf' which is just like Arch's pacman.

BTW there weren't any errors during or after ./configure, make and make install.

HMW · 05-21-2016, 01:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ztcoracat

I also tried:

Code:

cd /usr/local/bin/byobu
sudo rm /usr/local/bin/byobu
rm: cannot remove Is a directory

Would using sudo rmdir byobu work or would that interfere with the regular /usr/bin directory?

I know Korora isn't Arch but for what it's worth I was able to install Byobu. Remove each binary one at a time and also rm the entire emulator from Korora using the commandline utility 'dnf' which is just like Arch's pacman.

BTW there weren't any errors during or after ./configure, make and make install.

I know nothing about Korora, but wouldn't a simple:

Code:

rm -rf /usr/local/bin/byobu

(as root) take care of the problem?

Your second question I do not understand. Removing one binary from /usr/local/bin has no effect whatsoever on /usr/bin

But, as always, be very (VERY) careful when using rm -rf!!!

Best regards,
HMW

Ztcoracat · 05-21-2016, 01:45 PM

Yes, it should of worked; but it did not. It's still there.
http://i1052.photobucket.com/albums/...2014-28-57.png

These files in the screenshot are the left over byobu files after removing the byobu directory from the tar ball. There may be other files throughout the system that are associated with Byobu so I'd like to get rid of all of them.

Would reinstalling Byobu help and than try the rm -rf be the better approach?

HMW · 05-22-2016, 01:26 AM

Sorry buddy. I simply have no idea why you can't remove these files. rm -rf as root ought to have worked. At this point, I am out of ideas.

Best regards,
HMW

Ztcoracat · 05-23-2016, 09:51 PM

Problem rectified:-

Running:

Code:

sudo gksu natailus

gave me complete access to all of the Byobu files that were in /usr/local/etc/byobu and in /usr/local/lib/byobu. I sent all of the files to the trash.

In addition to that I found a good tutorial that you can delete/remove files by the inode reference number.

Code:

# find . -inum 782263 -exec rm -i {} \;

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/delete...de-number.html

Also; works like a dream!-

HMW:
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