How-to uninstall Perl

[Chris Wilson]

I've got lots of mono packages there. of course they all have "make
uninstall"  so i guess i could run those first then nix the rest. But
I'd think one could properly uninstall Perl. maybe it's a tactic of
the perl folk. ;-)

On 6/10/05, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 12:46:14PM +0200, Chris Wilson wrote:
> >hi,
> >
> >I compiled Perl from source because dpkg kept giving me the error
> >"Can't locate strict.pm in @INC...." which means Perl is screwed.
> >Don't know how it happened but installing compiling it and installing
> >to /usr/local got everything working ok and I reinstalled the ubuntu
> >version of Perl.
> >
> >Now i want to get rid of the self-compiled version but there is no
> >target for "make uninstall". How do I get rid of the version in
> >/usr/local?
> 
> What else have you installed to /usr/local? It's always an option to
> remove all files :-)
> 
>  $ find /usr/local -type f -exec rm -f {} \;
> 
> /M
> 
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