[GNC] Uninstall GC

[John Ralls]

Dennis,

The error says that "make" is on root's path but not dennis's and that it's a link to /usr/bin/cmake and that doesn't exist. That's a problem with your system and you need to clean it up.

When `make uninstall` fails check to see if install_manifest.txt exists in the build directory. If it doesn't then you'll have to uninstall GnuCash manually as David explained. if it is there then you can run the command that make uninstall would: `xargs rm < install_manifest.txt`.

Regards,
John Ralls

> On Mar 11, 2019, at 5:23 AM, Dennis Powless <claven123 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I tried that, see the error.   I guess I’ll try some of those other things.
> 
> D
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> 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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