Ooo, Nice. I hadn't seen that before.
G. Wade On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 19:08:38 +0000 (GMT) Robert Stone via Houston <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings, > > I found myself needing to uninstall a few modules today and > historically I would just navigate to the site perl install in my > perlbrew and rm -rf the relevant files, hoping that nothing else was > sharing the namespace: > > > > [rstone@rstone 5.16.3]$ pwd > /home/rstone/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.3/lib/site_perl/5.16.3 > [rstone@rstone 5.16.3]$ rm -rf Bad/Module/ > [rstone@rstone 5.16.3]$ > > > > > I came across a blog post at > http://scratching.psybermonkey.net/2011/02/perl-how-to-uninstall-delete-perl.html > that talks about pm-uninstall, a program similar to cpanm that takes > care of this task much more efficiently. It lists out what is going > to be removed, mentions the deps, and handles man page updates (for > those who use perldoc locally) as well as asks for conformation: > > > > > [rstone@rstone product]$ cpanm App::pmuninstall > --> Working on App::pmuninstall > Fetching > http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/X/XA/XAICRON/App-pmuninstall-0.30.tar.gz ... > OK Configuring App-pmuninstall-0.30 ... OK Building and testing > App-pmuninstall-0.30 ... OK Successfully installed > App-pmuninstall-0.30 1 distribution installed > [rstone@rstone product]$ pm-uninstall Math::Pari Math::BigInt::Pari > --> Working on Math::Pari > Math::Pari is included in the distribution Math-Pari and contains: > > /home/rstone/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.3/lib/site_perl/5.16.3/x86_64-linux/Math/Pari.pm > > /home/rstone/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.3/lib/site_perl/5.16.3/x86_64-linux/Math/PariInit.pm > > /home/rstone/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.3/lib/site_perl/5.16.3/x86_64-linux/Math/libPARI.dumb.pod > > /home/rstone/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.3/lib/site_perl/5.16.3/x86_64-linux/Math/libPARI.pod > > /home/rstone/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.3/lib/site_perl/5.16.3/x86_64-linux/auto/Math/Pari/Pari.so > > /home/rstone/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.3/man/man3/Math::Pari.3 > /home/rstone/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.3/man/man3/Math::PariInit.3 > /home/rstone/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.3/man/man3/Math::libPARI.3 > /home/rstone/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.3/man/man3/Math::libPARI.dumb.3 > > Also, they're depended on by the following installed dists: > > Math-BigInt-Pari > > Are you sure you want to uninstall Math-Pari? [n] y > > Successfully uninstalled Math::Pari > > --> Working on Math::BigInt::Pari > Math::BigInt::Pari is included in the distribution Math-BigInt-Pari > and contains: > > /home/rstone/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.3/lib/site_perl/5.16.3/Math/BigInt/Pari.pm > > /home/rstone/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.3/man/man3/Math::BigInt::Pari.3 > > Are you sure you want to uninstall Math-BigInt-Pari? [y] y > > Successfully uninstalled Math::BigInt::Pari > > You may want to rebuild man(1) entries. Try `mandb -c` if needed > > [rstone@rstone product]$ > > > > > I found it quite handy and thought I'd share it for anyone else who > may find themselves in a similar position. I'm also open to any other > similar tools/methods you may have used in the past. > > > > > Happy uninstalling! > > > > > Best Regards, > > Robert Stone -- Any time things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something. _______________________________________________ Houston mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston Website: http://houston.pm.org/
