Uninstall Apache???

legalois legalois at acm.org
Sun Dec 25 14:24:40 PST 2005


Martin P. Hansen wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Dec 2005, Jose Borquez wrote:
> 
>>I would like to know how you can uninstall Apache is it was installed 
>>from source?  I did a search on Google and read that you could just stop 
>>the service and then delete the apache source tree.  Is this true?
> 
> 
> It probably depends on your definition of uninstall. Usually the
> service binaries are installed in /usr/local/bin or sometimes in
> paths like /usr/local/apache. Same goes for configuration files see
> also hier(7). So stopping the service and removing the source tree
> wont remove these.
> 
> Some makefiles comes with an uninstall target, so you might try
> ``make uninstall''. Otherwise you can do a rebuild and reinstall
> from the sources again and look for recently changed files with
> something like ``find / -newerct "10 minutes ago"''. This probably
> have some shortcomings, but if you are careful it might do the job.
> 

...or you could read pkg_delete(1) and pkg_deinstall(1) and follow 
instructions.
("make uninstall" is not a valid target for any Makefile in the ports 
tree that I am aware of.)



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