[GNC] Uninstall GC

[Dennis Powless]

I tried that, see the error.   I guess I’ll try some of those other things.

D

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> On Mar 10, 2019, at 10:16 PM, David Cousens <davidcousens at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> Denis
> 
> $cd  ~/Applications/build-gnucash-3.1
> $make uninstall
> 
> should do it since you installed in HOME/.local  HOME is just /home/<user>
> where <user> is your username on the system. I don't install there but use
> /usr/local for system wide installation not individual user so I am not sure
> of the exact details of how GnuCash installs in HOME/.local.
> 
> If it doesn't then you can remove the installation manually. If the build
> directory is intact it will have a file install_manifest.txt which will list
> where all the files are installed to. 
> 
> All files will be under the .local hidden directory. Uee Ctrl-H in your file
> manager to display hidden directories. I think that works on Ubuntu as well
> as Linux Mint.
> 
> Check what files are present in HOME/.local.  How you proceed will depend if
> you have installed any other software in this location. If you are lucky it
> will possibley have a file gnucash which has subdirectories like bin, share,
> lib, etc.  If this is the case then deleting the gnucash directory and
> contents will completely remove the gnucash application with no problems.  
> 
> If it isn't in a gnucash directory it will probably just have bin,share,
> lib,etc directories directly under HOME/.local  . In this case you will need
> to check whether any other applications are installed. Chances are if
> HOME/.local/bin doesn't contain anything but the gnucash program you are OK,
> but also check the lib and share directories to see if there are anything
> other than gnucash related files there.  If there are no other applications
> installed there then it is safe to just delete all the directories under
> HOME/.local.
> 
> If not then you could use the install_manifest.txt as a guide  and manually
> delete them one by one to ensure you don't delete anything else you might
> need.
> 
> David Cousens
> 
> 
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