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From: | Thorsten Kampe <thorsten AT thorstenkampe DOT de> |
Subject: | Re: Uninstalling a program from Cygwin in Windows XP |
Date: | Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:32:38 +0100 |
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* D (Fri, 14 Sep 2007 02:25:59 -0700 (PDT)) > I have installed a program called Fontforge (An > outline font editor) into the Cygwin environment in > order to create and manipulate fonts for Windows XP. I > would like to update the editor, but when I try the > uninstall commands cygwin does not uninstall the > program can some provide help as to how to uninstall > Fontforge. It's not a part of the official Cygwin distribution. So how can we know how to uninstall the program? > Now when I try to uninstall the program I was supposed > to use this command: > $ su > password: > $ rm -rf /usr/local/bin/{fontforge,sfddiff} \ > /usr/local/lib/{libgdraw,libgunicode,libuninameslist}* > \ > /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/fontforge.pc \ > /usr/local/man/man1/{fontforge,sfddiff}.1 \ > /usr/local/share/doc/fontforge \ > /usr/local/share/locale/*/LC_MESSAGES/FontForge.mo > > but it does not uninstall the program. Any > suggestions as to what I need to do to uninstall this > program? A sufficient problem description would be fine. What happens when you issue this command and why does it not uninstall the program? On the other hand it really doesn't matter: the command just removes all the fontforge files. Why don't you do it by hand? It would take about two minutes of your precious time. Thorsten -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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