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Asked: 2010-05-30 06:34:31 +0800 CST

Uninstall ruby from source

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I installed ruby 1.9 on my fedora 13 machine from source. I want to go back and use the older 1.8.6 (which I'll install with yum), unfortunetly it appears that I can't simply uninstall my current version by "make uninstall" (make: *** No rule to make targetuninstall'. Stop.`).

Is there any way of doing this other than removing each individual file?

ruby source uninstall

4 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    There is a file in the build directory called .installed.list. This appears to be a list of all the files that get installed.

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  2. If ruby was installed in the following way:

    ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install

    You can uninstall it in the following way:

    Check installed ruby version; lets assume 2.1.2

    wget http://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.1/ruby-2.1.2.tar.bz2
bunzip ...
tar xfv ...
cd ruby-2.1.2
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo checkinstall
  # will build deb or rpm package and try to install it

    After installation, you can now remove the package and it will remove the directories/files/etc.

    sudo rpm -e ruby

    There might be some artifacts left:

    Removing ruby ...
  warning: while removing ruby, directory '/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems' not empty so not removed.
  ...

    Remove them manually.

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  3. Look in the Makefile to see if there's another target such as remove.

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  4. You can run the following commands:

    cd ruby-x.x.x (your source code directory)
sudo make uninstall
sudo rm -r /usr/local/lib/ruby
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