Asp Forum - Remove Ruby 1.8.5?

Christopher Latif

12/21/2006 12:08:00 PM

How do I remove Ruby 1.8.5 from linux? I have built it from source.

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David Vallner

12/21/2006 12:15:00 PM

Citát Christopher Latif <christopherl@bredband.net>:

> How do I remove Ruby 1.8.5 from linux? I have built it from source.
>

With Great Difficulty (tm).

If the build system supports it, you could try "make uninstall" in the source
directory.

Barring that, manually remove anything that seems ruby-related from
/usr/local/.

And in the future, use something like GNU stow for source installs if you plan
to uninstall them.

David Vallner

Simon Strandgaard

12/21/2006 12:22:00 PM

On 12/21/06, Christopher Latif <christopherl@bredband.net> wrote:
> How do I remove Ruby 1.8.5 from linux? I have built it from source.

I don't know how to remove ruby. However I just want to share a
great tool with you that helps avoiding just this situation.
http://www.gnu.org/soft...

the installation procedure is slightly longer when installing,
but easy when uninstalling.

this is the typical install procedure
prompt> cd ~/stow
prompt> mkdir leopard
prompt> cd ~/leopard/src
prompt> ./configure --prefix=/home/user/stow/leopard
prompt> make
prompt> make install
prompt> cd ~/stow
prompt> stow leopard

this is the uninstall procedure
prompt> cd ~/stow
prompt> stow -D vista

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James Britt

12/21/2006 3:13:00 PM

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky

12/21/2006 3:25:00 PM

Simon Strandgaard wrote:
> On 12/21/06, Christopher Latif <christopherl@bredband.net> wrote:
>> How do I remove Ruby 1.8.5 from linux? I have built it from source.
>
> I don't know how to remove ruby. However I just want to share a
> great tool with you that helps avoiding just this situation.
> http://www.gnu.org/soft...
>
>
> the installation procedure is slightly longer when installing,
> but easy when uninstalling.
>
> this is the typical install procedure
> prompt> cd ~/stow
> prompt> mkdir leopard
> prompt> cd ~/leopard/src
> prompt> ./configure --prefix=/home/user/stow/leopard
> prompt> make
> prompt> make install
> prompt> cd ~/stow
> prompt> stow leopard
>
>
> this is the uninstall procedure
> prompt> cd ~/stow
> prompt> stow -D vista
>
Nearly all Linux distributions -- at least the widely used ones -- have
package management systems, and nearly all of them include a way to get
the most recent Ruby from a package repository. So it should be simple.
I've never heard of (or needed) stow.

By the way, at least the three major package management systems --
yum(Red Hat/Fedora/CentOS and some others), apt(Debian/Ubuntu and
others) and Portage(Gentoo) have source packages in the repository, and
installing a package from source is as easy (but takes longer) as
installing a pre-compiled binary. So the only reason for a direct
download and install of Ruby 1.8.5 is if you actually want to hack upon
Ruby itself.

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http://borasky-research.blo...

If God had meant for carrots to be eaten cooked, He would have given rabbits fire.

Rob Sanheim

12/21/2006 3:55:00 PM

On 12/21/06, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
> Simon Strandgaard wrote:
> > On 12/21/06, Christopher Latif <christopherl@bredband.net> wrote:
> >> How do I remove Ruby 1.8.5 from linux? I have built it from source.
> >
> > I don't know how to remove ruby. However I just want to share a
> > great tool with you that helps avoiding just this situation.
> > http://www.gnu.org/soft...
> >
> >
> > the installation procedure is slightly longer when installing,
> > but easy when uninstalling.
> >
> > this is the typical install procedure
> > prompt> cd ~/stow
> > prompt> mkdir leopard
> > prompt> cd ~/leopard/src
> > prompt> ./configure --prefix=/home/user/stow/leopard
> > prompt> make
> > prompt> make install
> > prompt> cd ~/stow
> > prompt> stow leopard
> >
> >
> > this is the uninstall procedure
> > prompt> cd ~/stow
> > prompt> stow -D vista
> >
> Nearly all Linux distributions -- at least the widely used ones -- have
> package management systems, and nearly all of them include a way to get
> the most recent Ruby from a package repository. So it should be simple.
> I've never heard of (or needed) stow.
>
> By the way, at least the three major package management systems --
> yum(Red Hat/Fedora/CentOS and some others), apt(Debian/Ubuntu and
> others) and Portage(Gentoo) have source packages in the repository, and
> installing a package from source is as easy (but takes longer) as
> installing a pre-compiled binary. So the only reason for a direct
> download and install of Ruby 1.8.5 is if you actually want to hack upon
> Ruby itself.

Well, that and you want to use the latest security release that came
out a couple weeks ago - and it hasn't made it into the package
repositories yet.

- Rob

Benjamin Billian

12/21/2006 4:14:00 PM

Rob Sanheim wrote:
> On 12/21/06, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
>> Simon Strandgaard wrote:
>> By the way, at least the three major package management systems --
>> yum(Red Hat/Fedora/CentOS and some others), apt(Debian/Ubuntu and
>> others) and Portage(Gentoo) have source packages in the repository, and
>> installing a package from source is as easy (but takes longer) as
>> installing a pre-compiled binary. So the only reason for a direct
>> download and install of Ruby 1.8.5 is if you actually want to hack upon
>> Ruby itself.
>
> Well, that and you want to use the latest security release that came
> out a couple weeks ago - and it hasn't made it into the package
> repositories yet.

If that happens, I want to switch my distro to something more secure.
SCNR ;)

Benjamin

David Vallner

12/21/2006 10:49:00 PM

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> So the only reason for a direct
> download and install of Ruby 1.8.5 is if you actually want to hack upon
> Ruby itself.
>

Or avoid the searing pain that is Debian deconstructivism.

David Vallner

Vincent Fourmond

12/21/2006 11:37:00 PM

David Vallner wrote:
> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
>> So the only reason for a direct
>> download and install of Ruby 1.8.5 is if you actually want to hack upon
>> Ruby itself.
>>
>
> Or avoid the searing pain that is Debian deconstructivism.

Could you state precisely what you mean under this ? As I participate
to debian developing, there might be things I could help with in here ;-)...

Vince

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http://vincent.fourmon...

Wilson Bilkovich

12/21/2006 11:42:00 PM

On 12/21/06, Vincent Fourmond <vincent.fourmond@9online.fr> wrote:
> David Vallner wrote:
> > M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> >> So the only reason for a direct
> >> download and install of Ruby 1.8.5 is if you actually want to hack upon
> >> Ruby itself.
> >>
> >
> > Or avoid the searing pain that is Debian deconstructivism.
>
> Could you state precisely what you mean under this ? As I participate
> to debian developing, there might be things I could help with in here ;-)

:~$ dpkg -l |grep ruby
ii libdbm-ruby1.8 1.8.4-5 DBM interface for Ruby 1.8
ii libgdbm-ruby1. 1.8.4-5 GDBM interface for Ruby 1.8
ii libruby1.8 1.8.4-5 Libraries necessary to run Ruby 1.8
ii libruby1.8-dbg 1.8.4-5 Debugging symbols for Ruby 1.8
ii libtcltk-ruby1 1.8.4-5 Tcl/Tk interface for Ruby 1.8
ii ruby1.8 1.8.4-5 Interpreter of object-oriented scripting lan
ii ruby1.8-dev 1.8.4-5 Header files for compiling extension modules
ii ruby1.8-elisp 1.8.4-5 ruby-mode for Emacsen
ii ruby1.8-exampl 1.8.4-5 Examples for Ruby 1.8

Vincent Fourmond

12/21/2006 11:57:00 PM

Wilson Bilkovich wrote:
>> Could you state precisely what you mean under this ? As I participate
>> to debian developing, there might be things I could help with in here ;-)
>
> :~$ dpkg -l |grep ruby
> ii libdbm-ruby1.8 1.8.4-5 DBM interface for Ruby 1.8
> ii libgdbm-ruby1. 1.8.4-5 GDBM interface for Ruby 1.8
> ii libruby1.8 1.8.4-5 Libraries necessary to run Ruby 1.8
> ii libruby1.8-dbg 1.8.4-5 Debugging symbols for Ruby 1.8
> ii libtcltk-ruby1 1.8.4-5 Tcl/Tk interface for Ruby 1.8
> ii ruby1.8 1.8.4-5 Interpreter of object-oriented
> scripting lan
> ii ruby1.8-dev 1.8.4-5 Header files for compiling extension
> modules
> ii ruby1.8-elisp 1.8.4-5 ruby-mode for Emacsen
> ii ruby1.8-exampl 1.8.4-5 Examples for Ruby 1.8

I see your point, but for instance, you wouldn't want to pull in
database dependencies when you don't actually need any databases, or
even worse tk/x.org dependencies for a purely remote server... Do you
know a better way to do so ?

Vince

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http://vincent.fourmon...

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Remove Ruby 1.8.5?

Christopher Latif

David Vallner

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