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sayth
Asked: 2012-01-31 03:26:57 +0800 CST

unbuild. Remove a built package

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I was having issue with the vim-gnome package and command-t with vim not compiling with the system ruby. So I built vim with.

sudo apt-get install mercurial
hg clone https://vim.googlecode.com/hg/ vim
cd vim
./configure --enable-rubyinterp
make
sudo make install

But I made a mistake. when I did vim --version | grep ruby I realised my error. I had forgotten to turn off rvm before compiling.

   -Wl,-R -Wl,/home/renshaw/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib -L/home/renshaw/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib -lruby -lpthread -lrt -ldl -lcrypt -lm  -L/home/renshaw/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib

But I can't get apt-get remove it and I cannot see vim in /usr/bin/. It still runs if I type vim, but how do I remove it so I can compile it properly?

11.10

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    As one of the commenter's (jrg) suggested it's likely to be in /usr/local. You don't need to uninstall before recompiling and reinstalling though. When you install again it will simply overwrite the previous version.

    You can normally run ./configure --help to see what the options available are, like the install path (normally labeled prefix and set to /usr/local I believe).

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