Re^2: howto uninstall a package/module

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Re^3: howto uninstall a package/module by Eyck (Priest) on Mar 02, 2006 at 11:36 UTC
If you wrote the module yourself, you are the one responsible for providing clean uninstall method for it. If you used MakeMaker for creating a Makefile (I'm assuming that is what you did), it should create an uninstall target for you, so, if you installed your module with `make install`, you should be able to uninstall it with `make uninstall` from module's directory. Anyway, you should provide more details (how did you install this test module? windoze ppm? perl -MCPAN -e "install Test::Module"? make install?	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: howto uninstall a package/module by jeanluca (Deacon) on Mar 02, 2006 at 11:54 UTC
I used h2xs -AX ABC::Test Than I installed it like: `perl MakeFile.PL make make install` [download] Now if I type: make uninstall I get the following message: `Uninstall is unsafe and deprecated, the uninstallation was not perform +ed. We will show what would have been done. no packlist file found: at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7/ExtUtils/Install.pm l +ine 318. make: *** [uninstall_from_sitedirs] Error 2` [download] Any suggestions ? Luca	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: howto uninstall a package/module by Anonymous Monk on Mar 02, 2006 at 15:53 UTC
This is evil, but would work. Reinstall the module you wrote with a version = version + 0.01 . Look at what it says it's doing. (Eg, copying file asdf.pm to /usr/local/perl5/5.8.0/site_perl/asdf.pm or simliar) As an appropriate user, rm -rf those files it says it's copying (if all you're doing is pure perl module). If you used h2xs binding to a library... then you're beyond my knowledge and I wish you good luck... :) Cheers.	[reply]