Uninstall on Linux?

[kovidgoyal]

Patches are welcome And I can either spend my time developing calibre or developing installation packages for the half a hundred linux distributions out there. Linux distributors, by failing to co-operate with each other on packaging have created an impossible situation for application developers. They (and unfortunately linux users) are going to have to live with the consequences.

As it is, for those distributions where people have stepped up and made packages, I am happy to link to them on the linux download page. I lack the time (or the motivation) to do more than that.

Originally Posted by MarioE

This would be valid if you provided just source. I have no problem building and installing from source. But you also provide your OWN installation format, the binary installer. If you provide your own specific format for installation, that format should ideally also support removal.

At the very least, why don't you just state on the download page that the binary installer will require manual removal?

As for the community packaging it for you, I will probably do this, although your pugnacious tone is no real motivation. Did you approach any users in your community about being package maintainers for their distributions?

[dedo]

For me on Ubuntu 8.04 this worked:

for i in $(cat /opt/calibre/manifest); do sudo rm "/usr/bin/$i"; done
sudo rm -rf /opt/calibre/
rm -rf ~/.config/calibre/
sudo updatedb
for i in $(locate calibre); do sudo rm -i "$i"; done

[Jellby]

for i in $(locate calibre); do sudo rm "$i"; done

I would't do that last line automatically, or anything including "calibre" in its name will be removed from your system, including "informaticalibre", "calibre-backup", etc.

[dedo]

Just check "locate calibre" before running it. I had nothing named *calibre* but calibre files indeed.

Edit: I added -i option to rm, so you can check before deletion.

[egret17]

Last week I successfully installed calibre using the binary installer (Dell Mini 9 running Hardy). I just rebuilt the Dell from the restore cd and now do not seem to be able to install calibre using the binary installer. This is the error it throws:

Extracting files to /usr/bin/calibre ...
Extracting application files...
Creating symlinks...
Symlinking /usr/bin/calibre/fetch-ebook-metadata to /usr/bin/fetch-ebook-metadata
Symlinking /usr/bin/calibre/calibre-complete to /usr/bin/calibre-complete
Symlinking /usr/bin/calibre/lrf2lrs to /usr/bin/lrf2lrs
Symlinking /usr/bin/calibre/ebook-convert to /usr/bin/ebook-convert
Symlinking /usr/bin/calibre/pdfmanipulate to /usr/bin/pdfmanipulate
Symlinking /usr/bin/calibre/lrfviewer to /usr/bin/lrfviewer
Symlinking /usr/bin/calibre/ebook-meta to /usr/bin/ebook-meta
Symlinking /usr/bin/calibre/markdown-calibre to /usr/bin/markdown-calibre
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/tmp/init.py", line 45, in <module>
File "/home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/linux.py", line 348, in binary_install
OSError: [Errno 21] Is a directory: '/usr/bin/calibre'

Any idea what's wrong? Thanks.

[kovidgoyal]

sudo rm /usr/bin/calibre

and do that for every file it throws an error for

[egret17]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

sudo rm /usr/bin/calibre

and do that for every file it throws an error for

That's actually a directory - are you saying I should sudo rm -rf this directory?

Was the actual problem that I chose /usr/bin/calibre as the install directory when asked to choose a directory? Can't remember which directory I chose last week when it worked...

Thanks! I love using calibre on my Windows Vista box and am hoping to get it going on the Linux box...

[kovidgoyal]

Yes delete it. And don't choose to install things under /usr/bin it's bad practice no linux, choose either /opt or /usr/local

[GrAfFiT]

For the benefit of the others, here's is the complete list of files and directories installed by calibre 0.6.32 with the binary installer found using a chroot setup:

/etc/bash_completion.d/calibre
/lib/udev/rules.d/95-calibre.rules
/opt/calibre/*
/opt/calibre
/usr/share/calibre/*
/usr/share/calibre
/usr/bin/ebook-device
/usr/bin/ebook-viewer
/usr/bin/markdown-calibre
/usr/bin/calibredb
/usr/bin/calibre-uninstall
/usr/bin/librarything
/usr/bin/calibre-debug
/usr/bin/ebook-convert
/usr/bin/fetch-ebook-metadata
/usr/bin/lrf2lrs
/usr/bin/calibre-smtp
/usr/bin/calibre-server
/usr/bin/ebook-meta
/usr/bin/calibre-customize
/usr/bin/calibre-parallel
/usr/bin/lrs2lrf
/usr/bin/lrfviewer
/usr/bin/web2disk
/usr/bin/pdfmanipulate
/usr/bin/calibre
/usr/local/share/applications/calibre-ebook-viewer.desktop
/usr/local/share/applications/defaults.list
/usr/local/share/applications/calibre-gui.desktop
/usr/local/share/applications/calibre-lrfviewer.desktop
/usr/local/share/mime/packages/calibre-mimetypes
/usr/local/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/mimetypes/gnome-mime-application-lrf.png
/usr/local/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/mimetypes/gnome-mime-text-lrs.png
/usr/local/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/mimetypes/application-lrf.png
/usr/local/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/mimetypes/text-lrs.png
/usr/local/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/calibre-gui.png
/usr/local/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/calibre-viewer.png

They can all be safely deleted.