Re: uninstalling octave

[Quentin Spencer]

Deanna DiBernardi wrote:
> i installed v 2.1.73 first, and then decided to upgrade to v 2.9.12. when i run
> any plot function, it tells me that it runs the compare_versions function and
> that it fails (an error message). this is followed by multiple other error
> messages about evaulating command lines later.
> what i tried to do was uninstall octave 2.1.73 so that there wouldnt be a
> comparison--unfortunately i am running fedora core 5 linux without internet,
> and i have to remove all files by hand. i ran 'make clean' and 'make distclean'
> in the octave 2.1.73 directory and then deleted the directory itself. the
> compare_versions function is still running, and giving an error. are there any
> files that i would've missed in trying to clear them out?
> it would also be fine to delete all versions of octave and reinstall. are there
> any directions for this? without using add/remove software...
> thanks! i appreciate the help.
>   

If you installed using "make install", you remove by "make uninstall". 
The make clean and distclean just clean out the source directories, but 
don't remove installed files. Assuming you built both versions of octave 
from source using the defaults, you probably installed everything in 
/usr/local, so you can probably remove everything with the following:
rm -rf /usr/local/bin/octave-2.1.73
rm -rf /usr/local/share/octave/2.1.73
rm -rf /usr/local/lib/octave-2.1.73
rm -rf /usr/local/libexec/octave/2.1.73

Maybe this doesn't matter since you don't have an internet connection, 
but octave 2.9.9 is included in Fedora extras, so it can be installed 
with "yum install octave".

Quentin