On Wed, 29 Apr 2015, Michael J. Campbell wrote:

>    Hi!
>    I've installed fail2ban, using the provided setup.py.
>    As I want to use fail2ban from the debian repository instead of the
>    previously installed one, I assumed it would be best practice to remove
>    the current installation.

smth like 

find /usr/local -iname fail2ban\* | xargs rm -rf

would be the most thorough

>    Unfortunately I found no remove or uninstall parameter for the setup.py.
>    So I've reinstalled fail2ban on a vm, rediricting all the output, in order
>    to get a list of the created files.
>    Using that list I wrote this tiny bash script to remove the created files.
>    Maybe someone else may use it as well, criticism very welcome!

> #!/bin/bash

> echo "removing /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/"
> rm -rf /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/fail2ban
> echo "removing /usr/local/bin/fail2ban"
> rm -rf /usr/local/bin/fail2ban* 
> echo "removing /etc/fail2ban"
> rm -rf /etc/fail2ban
> echo "removing /var/lib/fail2ban"
> rm -rf /var/lib/fail2ban
> echo "removing /usr/share/doc/fail2ban"
> rm -rf /usr/share/doc/fail2ban

ah -- so you even solved it -- should work as well, thanks ;)

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