[ubuntu-in] How to completely remove a software installed via ./run or

[Rahul Ghose]

Hey ram,

(could not resist that :)

One way I find useful sometimes is installing software to an alternate
prefix folder other than "/". Sandbox-installation if you will. Then
figure out the paths of all the files installed and delete them from
the actual folder.

Not sure if this can be done with your ".run" file though. It's not a
real installation standard.

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Regards,
Rahul Ghose
Flywheel
http://www.rahul-ghose.in


On 26 June 2015 at 15:33, Ramnarayan.K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I installed a version of sofytware (gnukhata) via a .run file
>
> there is a newer version available (1.3.3.) at gnukhata.in
>
> due to some issues i was advised to install the new version
>
> However there was / is not recommended method to uninstall the old version
>
> So i used the find command to find any references to gnukhata (in / /usr/bin
> /run / etc and so on) these i manually removed and then installed the new
> version 1.3.3 however post install i continue to get the old version in the
> about section.
>
> Now am unsure if the old version is still hanging around some where or the
> new version just has not updated the version number.
>
> But the above is by way of explanantion - my main question is if there is a
> software that is installed via ./run is there an easy way to uninstall it.
>
> thanks
> ram
>
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