From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dboyd2@mmm.com (J. David Boyd) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to uninstall Emacs? Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2015 14:30:52 -0400 Message-ID: References: <878ue21nkc.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1428517889 15050 80.91.229.3 (8 Apr 2015 18:31:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 18:31:29 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 08 20:31:22 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Yfukz-0005Qn-KD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Apr 2015 20:31:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54323 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yfukz-0006pS-2Y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Apr 2015 14:31:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39385) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yfukn-0006pN-Po for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Apr 2015 14:31:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yfukk-0002PM-06 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Apr 2015 14:31:09 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:59619) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yfukj-0002PG-PO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Apr 2015 14:31:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Yfuke-0005F3-IS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Apr 2015 20:31:01 +0200 Original-Received: from 169.15.136.127 ([169.15.136.127]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 08 Apr 2015 20:31:00 +0200 Original-Received: from dboyd2 by 169.15.136.127 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 08 Apr 2015 20:31:00 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 169.15.136.127 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (cygwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:i9ySbfoXBhuiDv7BNwrLfDPUW1s= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:103585 Archived-At: Rodolfo Medina writes: > Hi all. > > I recently installed Emacs after downloading it from git repositories. Suppose > I would like to uninstall it - I want to try how the Emacs distribution > provided by Debian works and then, perhaps, reinstall Emacs from git. How can > I completely uninstall it? > > Thanks for any help. > > Rodolfo If you compiled and built it yourself with 'make install', go to the build directory and try 'make uninstall'. Dave