Maybe a command more like this? find /usr/local/lib/ -name "couchdb" | xargs -n 1 rm -rf
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: > It looks wrong. If people want to uninstall CouchDB, they should use the > "uninstall" target with make. Instructions asking them to DELETE everything > are very irresponsible. Unless the user thinks hard about that that command > is about to do, they will loose all the data in their databases. > > On 9 Mar 2010, at 15:54, Jan Lehnardt wrote: > >> Hi Noah, >> >> On 9 Mar 2010, at 03:17, Apache Wiki wrote: >> >>> - == invalid UTF-8 JSON == >>> - >>> - When upgrading from old versions of CouchDB, it is best to really get rid >>> of everything old. If you get strange errors and all but the simplest >>> actions appear to be broken, and especially if you are seeing >>> {"error":"bad_request","reason":"invalid UTF-8 JSON"} type of errors in >>> Futon, then you should try something like the following: >>> - >>> - {{{ >>> - find /usr/local -name \*couch* | xargs rm -rf >>> - make && sudo make install >>> - }}} >>> - >>> - This was discussed on 13 Dec 2009 on the users mailing list, and the >>> resolution is discussed >>> - >>> [[http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-user/200912.mbox/%[email protected]%3e|here]] >>> and >>> - >>> [[http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-user/200912.mbox/%[email protected]%3e|here]] >>> - >>> - >> >> what's wrong with this information? I still see people running into the >> issue. >> >> Cheers >> Jan >> -- >> > >
