fred smith wrote: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 01:26:51PM -0400, m.roth at 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 {} \; mark