Removing software

NotionCommotion · 01-17-2015, 02:44 PM

A while back, I installed some software using the following:

Code:

#wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/wkhtmltopdf/0.12.0/wkhtmltox-linux-amd64_0.12.0-03c001d.tar.xz
#tar -xvJf wkhtmltox-linux-amd64_0.12.0-03c001d.tar.xz -C /opt

I know wish to remove it. Should I just delete it or something else? Thanks

astrogeek · 01-17-2015, 02:56 PM

Yes, since it was installed outside the package tools you can only delete it the same way...

I would look at the original tar archive and make sure it created everything under a single parent directory, then delete that directory. If it created more than one parent make sure you get them all - AND make sure it did not create any files in pre-existing directories.

If the runtime of the program created any configs in /etc/ or ~/, you will need to find and delete those separately.

Keruskerfuerst · 01-17-2015, 02:56 PM

Check out the directory under /opt/, if there is a folder wkhtmltopdf.

NotionCommotion · 01-17-2015, 04:24 PM

Don't even know if I still have the original tar archive, but if I did, how would I use it?

Also, looks like everything is under one directory in /opt/.

[Michael@devserver ~]$ ls /opt
rh wkhtmltox
[Michael@devserver ~]$ ls /opt/wk*
bin include lib
[Michael@devserver ~]$

astrogeek · 01-17-2015, 04:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NotionCommotion

Don't even know if I still have the original tar archive, but if I did, how would I use it?

Also, looks like everything is under one directory in /opt/.

[Michael@devserver ~]$ ls /opt
rh wkhtmltox
[Michael@devserver ~]$ ls /opt/wk*
bin include lib
[Michael@devserver ~]$

You can see what files are in the archive like this...

Code:

#tar -tvJf wkhtmltox-linux-amd64_0.12.0-03c001d.tar.xz

If there looks to be a single directory then you are probably safe to just remove it and all its children.

I always like to take baby steps when doing such things to keep from doing anything unexpected, so I would...

Code:

cd /opt  - Change into the parent directory so you can delete with relative paths...
pwd  - Just to confirm that you are where you think you are...

ls wkhtmltox  - So you can see what to expect... then...
rm -rf wkhtmltox

ls  - To confirm that it is gone...

NotionCommotion · 01-17-2015, 04:55 PM

Couldn't find the old tar file even on line, but think it just installed it in the one directory.

Yes, baby steps make sense, especially when using force flags as root!

John VV · 01-18-2015, 01:22 PM

Quote:

Couldn't find the old tar file even on line, but think it just installed it in the one directory.

????????

i found it in less than 30 seconds on the sorceforge link you posted in the first post

also 12.0 is OLD
12.2 is current

also what you installed was NOT source code you build
but a prebuilt binary

just delete the folder in opt