Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 23:14:15 +0100 From: legalois <legalois@acm.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Uninstall Apache??? Message-ID: <43AF19B7.30203@acm.org> In-Reply-To: <20051225211458.GA62030@echobase.hoth.dk> References: <43AF084B.3070900@sbcglobal.net> <20051225211458.GA62030@echobase.hoth.dk>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Martin P. Hansen wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Dec 2005, Jose Borquez wrote:
>
>>I would like to know how you can uninstall Apache is it was installed
>>from source? I did a search on Google and read that you could just stop
>>the service and then delete the apache source tree. Is this true?
>
>
> It probably depends on your definition of uninstall. Usually the
> service binaries are installed in /usr/local/bin or sometimes in
> paths like /usr/local/apache. Same goes for configuration files see
> also hier(7). So stopping the service and removing the source tree
> wont remove these.
>
> Some makefiles comes with an uninstall target, so you might try
> ``make uninstall''. Otherwise you can do a rebuild and reinstall
> from the sources again and look for recently changed files with
> something like ``find / -newerct "10 minutes ago"''. This probably
> have some shortcomings, but if you are careful it might do the job.
>
...or you could read pkg_delete(1) and pkg_deinstall(1) and follow
instructions.
("make uninstall" is not a valid target for any Makefile in the ports
tree that I am aware of.)
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?43AF19B7.30203>