[GNC] Uninstall GC

[John Ralls]

David,

You're right, I misread his cmake command line. I should have said `rm -rf ~/.local`. 

Of course that might also have collateral damage if he's installed other things into .local.

  find ~/.local -name *gnucash* -o -name *gnc* -exec rm -rf {} \;
  
will safely remove everything GnuCash installs with the possible exception of libgwengui-gtk3.so if the system doesn't provide it.

Regards,
John Ralls

> On May 2, 2019, at 6:39 PM, David Cousens <davidcousens at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> John,
> 
> Won't that simply remove the source directories. With that prefix Dennis has
> installed under /home/dennis/.local. If the build directory is under
> ~/Applications/gnucash-3.1 then he will lose the manifest by using rm  -rf
> on the source directory. 
> 
> If he can locate the original build directory then issuing make uninstall
> from a terminal open in that directory. I have adopted the practice of
> putting the build directory inside the source directory and retaining both
> (I once found that the make uninstall procedure seems to reference the
> source directories not simply the manifest file or the build directories but
> I have never checked this out fully) until after I have removed a build. It
> doesn't cause any problems and keeps everything you need for an uninstall
> together.
> 
> Dennis 
> Your build directory is unlikely to be gnucash-3.1, that is most likely the
> source directory. Where it is located is the directory from which you
> originally executed the cmake command since you used absolute addressing to
> the source. It may be  inside gnucash-3.1 if you used the mkdir <build>  and
> cd <build> commands from the terminal open atgnucash-3.1 before issuing the
> make command. Here <build> is a generic notation for a filename for a build
> file. It will have whatever name you gave it at the time. The attached
> screenshot gives you the directory structure and files in the build
> directory note the dist_manifest.txt and install_manifest.txt. These will be
> present in your build directory.
> Selection_009.png
> <http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/file/t375329/Selection_009.png>  
> 
> David Cousens
> 
> 
> 
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