On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 02:05:05PM -0400, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
fred smith wrote:
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 01:26:51PM -0400, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
fred smith wrote:
<snip> > I'm running Centos 5.8 here. > > Day before yesterday I decided to look and see if there was a newer > SpamBayes than I was then using. lo and behold, there was. I was using > 1.1a4, and there was a 1.1a6. > > so I downloaded and installed it. bad move. <snip> *How* did you install it? Is it an .rpm, or a tar.gz?
it's a tar.gz. you unzip it and run "python setup.py install" which is, I gather, the normal way to install Python stuff (except, of course, for those things in a RPM or DEB or whatever package). As far as I can figure out by staring blankly at the code in setup.py, there isn't any (obvious) uninstall function.
All I can suggest then is tar -tvfz file.tar.gz > filelist, then feed that to find and exec rm {} ;
yeah, I'm working on that. but it doesn't appear to be quite that simple. :(
The setup.py proggie appears to do a bunch futzing around with creating/modifying files before squirreling them away in various places.
I've grabbed from the screen a log of the things it says its doing, from which I hope to be able to derive the list of things to purge.
Fred