From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 25 22:49:21 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77EEB16A41F for ; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 22:49:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mph@echobase.hoth.dk) Received: from pfepb.post.tele.dk (pfepb.post.tele.dk [195.41.46.236]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7A2A43D5C for ; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 22:49:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mph@echobase.hoth.dk) Received: from echobase.hoth.dk (echobase.hoth.dk [80.62.210.27]) by pfepb.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id C362F5EE056 for ; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 23:49:19 +0100 (CET) Received: by echobase.hoth.dk (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 8289719B3D; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 23:49:19 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 23:49:19 +0100 From: "Martin P. Hansen" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20051225224919.GA63748@echobase.hoth.dk> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <43AF084B.3070900@sbcglobal.net> <20051225211458.GA62030@echobase.hoth.dk> <43AF19B7.30203@acm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43AF19B7.30203@acm.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Subject: Re: Uninstall Apache??? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 22:49:21 -0000 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