On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 02:05:05PM -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > 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 {} \; 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 -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- "For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart." ---------------------------- Hebrews 4:12 (niv) ------------------------------