From help-request at octave dot org Wed Feb 16 08:18:56 2005
Subject: Re: Removing an old version
From: Quentin Spencer <qspencer at ieee dot org>
To: Diego Ruiz <diego dot ruiz at ietcat dot org>
CC: help at octave dot org
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 08:20:15 -0600

Diego Ruiz wrote:

>Dear all,
>
>I've just installed version 2.1.64 in my Fedora 2 system and it 
>turns out that both installations are "coexisting". I mean my hard 
>drive is plenty of files and directories of version 2.1.57.
>
>Is there a "safe" way for removing all of them without leaving 
>"traces" of it in the HD?
>  
>
If your 2.1.57 installation is the one that came with the Fedora system, 
running the command
rpm -e octave
as root should remove it. If you installed it by compiling from source, 
you will need to do
rm -Rf /usr/share/octave/2.1.57
rm -Rf /usr/libexec/octave/2.1.57
rm -f /usr/bin/octave*-2.1.57
There might be other files, but this will remove the important ones, and 
should leave your 2.1.64 installation intact.

-Quentin



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