how to remove a program when installed from source with python[solved]

Sekra · 2009-04-12 08:28:59

I have a problem where I installed a program (fail2ban) earlier from the sources and it used a python setup script to install. Now I noticed that pacman also offers fail2ban. I want to keep my system clean so I want to first remove the version I installed from sources but I cannot find any way to do that. The readme told me to install using "python setup.py install" but there is no "python setup.py uninstall" or anything similar. I am getting very frustrated about this issue.

Last edited by Sekra (2009-04-12 09:47:56)

Allan · 2009-04-12 08:38:34

There may be something like "python setup.py uninstall"

Sekra · 2009-04-12 08:40:17

Sekra wrote:

The readme told me to install using "python setup.py install" but there is no "python setup.py uninstall" or anything similar.

Ehm?

Xyne · 2009-04-12 08:54:35

If you can't find a clear list of files that it installed and other changes that it made, you could try using pacpal's "--list-unpkgd" option if you have an idea of where it's installed.

You could also just force-install the pacman package and hope that it overwrites all of the manually installed files.

The last thing that I can think of is manually installing fail2ban in a chroot and then checking what files it creates.

Allan · 2009-04-12 08:58:15

Sekra wrote:

Sekra wrote:
The readme told me to install using "python setup.py install" but there is no "python setup.py uninstall" or anything similar.
Ehm?

HAHA! I should read things more carefully... If you know some python, you can also look at the setup.py script and see what it installs.

Sekra · 2009-04-12 09:30:54

solved the problem by removing everything I could find with 'locate fail2ban'.. I hope I didnt break anything by doing that

tomk · 2009-04-12 09:32:27

Or you can see what has been installed by running setup.py again with --root=/some/dir, and then looking in /some/dir.

plurt · 2009-04-12 09:39:57

tag [SOLVED] ?

Sekra · 2009-04-12 09:49:09

tomk wrote:

Or you can see what has been installed by running setup.py again with --root=/some/dir, and then looking in /some/dir.

Dont want to mess up the system. I'm amazed how ppl tell that linux is advanced and stuff but then you cant find a simple uninstall command for things like this.

Mr.Elendig · 2009-04-12 12:08:52

Sekra wrote:

tomk wrote:
Or you can see what has been installed by running setup.py again with --root=/some/dir, and then looking in /some/dir.
Dont want to mess up the system. I'm amazed how ppl tell that linux is advanced and stuff but then you cant find a simple uninstall command for things like this.

No different from windows.
Anyway, this is why package managers like pacman exists. You should have used it in the first place

moljac024 · 2009-04-12 12:16:30

Sekra wrote:

tomk wrote:
Or you can see what has been installed by running setup.py again with --root=/some/dir, and then looking in /some/dir.
Dont want to mess up the system. I'm amazed how ppl tell that linux is advanced and stuff but then you cant find a simple uninstall command for things like this.

That won't mess up your system. Anyway, be amazed that the developer of that particular program didn't provide a way to uninstall it.

Last edited by moljac024 (2009-04-12 12:18:35)

Mr.Elendig · 2009-04-12 12:34:33

moljac024 wrote:

Sekra wrote:
tomk wrote:
Or you can see what has been installed by running setup.py again with --root=/some/dir, and then looking in /some/dir.
Dont want to mess up the system. I'm amazed how ppl tell that linux is advanced and stuff but then you cant find a simple uninstall command for things like this.
That won't mess up your system. Anyway, be amazed that the developer of that particular program didn't provide a way to uninstall it.

Sadly, setuptools is a mess

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how to remove a program when installed from source with python[solved]

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Re: how to remove a program when installed from source with python[solved]

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Re: how to remove a program when installed from source with python[solved]

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Re: how to remove a program when installed from source with python[solved]

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