Re: Software/HD ecology

[kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann)]

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Anil Trivedi <anil@null.invalid> writes:

> Stefan, looks like we have both been working all night and need a very,
> very strong cup of coffee. :-) Rubbing my eyes, this is what I see on
> my system:
>
>    anil% find /usr -name emacs -print
>    /usr/bin/emacs
>    /usr/info/emacs
>    /usr/libexec/emacs
>    /usr/local/bin/emacs
>    /usr/share/emacs
>    /usr/share/info/emacs

I gather that you didn't install Emacs there.  Then please go to the
person (or organization) who did it and ask them how to delete Emacs.

(On my (Debian) system, there are similar files and directories and
"dpkg --purge emacs" will delete them.)

If you had installed Emacs there from the source, and if you had kept
the source directory around, then you could have gone to the source
directory and then typed `make uninstall' and the above files would
have been deleted.

The previous paragraph might be useful for said people (or
organizations) who installed Emacs into those directories onto your
system, to produce a way for you to delete Emacs.

There is a problem here: I just told you some messages back that you
can delete the source directory, now I'm telling you you need to keep
it for `make uninstall'.  Solution: after installing Emacs, type
`make -n uninstall' and save the result somewhere safe.  The result
contains all the commands necessary to uninstall Emacs.

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