Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 23:49:19 +0100 From: "Martin P. Hansen" <mph@lima.dyndns.dk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Uninstall Apache??? Message-ID: <20051225224919.GA63748@echobase.hoth.dk> In-Reply-To: <43AF19B7.30203@acm.org> References: <43AF084B.3070900@sbcglobal.net> <20051225211458.GA62030@echobase.hoth.dk> <43AF19B7.30203@acm.org>
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On Sun, 25 Dec 2005, legalois wrote:
> 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.)
As I understand the question, ``source'' doesn't refer to a port,
but rather the original apache source distribution.
But ofcause if you are dealing with ports it is *much* easier to
use the package features ;-)
--
Martin P. Hansen
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