I have what might be a very basic beginner level question about how to safely uninstall and remove from CentOS 7 an application that was installed from a tar.gz file. But for some reason, the question is not inspiring anyone to answer it. Is someone on here willing to guide me closer to a solution?
A CentOS 7 server has v0.12.7 of Node.js installed, and the installation was done using a tar. This is leading to conflicts when I try to install a more modern version of Node.js using yum. What specific steps need to be taken (i.e. what specific commands need to be typed) to safely remove the ...
@CodeMed In general there is no good way to do this. Which is part of why package management systems exist. Having said that, try running a make install (if that is applicable) in verbose mode, and save a log of the output.
This may give you an indication, at least, of where things have been installed.
I don't know the details of the package build system in question, so without looking I cannot say more.
where do i navigate to before typing make install, and how do I make it verbose? Also, are you sure you mean make install and not make uninstall? Thank you, by the way.
make install VERBOSE=1
is that what I type? and in the /home.user/node_delete directory?
here is the log of what I typed:
[root@localhost node_delete]# make install VERBOSE=1 make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop. [root@localhost node_delete]#
My understanding is that the installation was originally done with a tar file, but that I no longer have the original tar file. I could only guess the original date.
I am a self taught linux person who has been working in linux for a few years. I can read instructions, but I always learn as i go. ... so how do i install a chroot?
i thought to create a new virtualbox centos 7 and just port everything over to it, but that seems so extreme, and i would like to actually learn to solve problems instead of running away every time it gets hard
If you must know, windows enables me to use ms office, and other tools that connect me with the nontechnical outside world. And keeping the virtualbox centos in the same machine enables me to carry one computer around instead of two.
How does Android for mobile devices actually able to communicate with IO such as the integrated modem circuit built into the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon ARM core IC's ? Would it be through the CPU via interrupts and then the incoming data is copied to a buffer in RAM or could someone please explai...
Step (b) is not clear to me. How and why do i do that? The other steps I can do, though it seems like a very convoluted approach. Perhaps you are teaching me that we should never install anything without yum.
You do it (as I said already) to see what new files have appeared. Put all files in the relevant directories (/usr/local for example) under version control. Then when new files are installed, the version control system won't know about them. And they'll show up. In Mercurial with a ? in front. Possibly in git too.
Hi everyone, just a quick question. I have an IP-address, say it's 8.8.8.8. What would be the proper name for 8.8.8.0? Is that a base IP? Main IP? Block name? Please help me figure out
Thank you. I really appreciate your patience. ..... I feel like I REALLY STEPPED IN IT. ... But I want to make it easy for you to help me, so I do not not want to complain and make it harder. .... I just wonder why I cannot do something easier instead of multiple of us spending the better part of a day trying to do a simple uninstall with many convoluted commands and VMs.
I am creating a new virtualbox installation with new centos, if i can find the iso when i get to that step. if you are willing and available to talk me through this, I will do this approach that you say is better
I'm writing a script that waits until a bunch of directories exist before starting a service. It basically consists of an infinite loop that breaks at the end, or continues if any of the needed directories aren't found. Simplified, the algorithm itself looks like
loop_while_false() {
trap co...
@FaheemMitha I have installed centos 7 in a new virtualbox vm which is now running.
The web browser in the VM is able to connect to the internet and load web pages, but typing yum clean all && tum update results in something that says Another app is currently holding the yum lock.
packagekit is running it. another unix.se post says to systemctl stop it, then remove it. i cannot cut and paste across virtual machines, so i will just try that now and report back
It does not say if it is finishing something, but the message keeps repeating, even when I retry after several minutes. It might just be a remnant of the recent install.
systemctl stop packagekit results in a message saying packagekit is not installed as a service. same with packagekitd.
Packagekit is running as process id 14200, so i could try to kill -9 14200
kill -9 14200 worked. now i am doing yum clean all && yum update to clean everything up. Where should I be looking to find version control software to do what you suggest in you (b) above?
Ah. Well, I'm a Mercurial user. With mercurial, you could do something like:
cd /usr/local, hg init, hg add, hg ci -m "added files". But if you don't have any experience with this stuff, you probably won't know what to do if something unexpected happens.
BTW, the stuff separated by commas are separate commands.
Section 1.4 of the following link says how to install mercurial with yum. I am inclined to try the yum approach given that this whole mess is from going outside of yum in the first place: mercurial-scm.org/wiki/Download
@FaheemMitha Thank you for your help. Yes, I know there are other people. But sometimes it seems hit and miss in terms of who is in the frame of mind to look at something in the same time period in which a questioner posts a question. Also, communicating with folks like you helps a questioner frame higher quality questions that might be easier for the people you mention to answer.
@FaheemMitha For reference, roughtly how many hours from now do you anticipate being around again? 10 hours? I do not need to know your location, but it is daytime where I am. I might check my phone in the middle of the night if I know it is morning your time.
@Gilles I did ask on the main site, but the question did not get an answer, so I asked here, perhaps even only to improve the question so that someone answers it there. Here is the link:
A CentOS 7 server has v0.12.7 of Node.js installed, and the installation was done using a tar. This is leading to conflicts when I try to install a more modern version of Node.js using yum. What specific steps need to be taken (i.e. what specific commands need to be typed) to safely remove the ...
I recommend using stow for all non-package-manager installations. With stow, each installation has its own directory, and the stow command creates symbolic links under /usr/local. That way uninstallation is easy.
@celsoap7 I don't know, but surely not on a site that's about Unix.
@CodeMed wait, was the earlier installation under /usr/local? What's the problem then? Why not just remove /usr/local/bin/node and /usr/local/lib/node_modules?
@Gilles I created a new virtualbox CentOS 7 VM to follow @FaheemMitha 's advice above. Then I typed yum clean all && yum update to bring the new CentOS 7 VM up to date. It is currently slowly fulfilling the clean and update request.
@Gilles I do not remember how the old v0.12.7 was installed. And since I am still a beginner after a couple years of this, I thought I should ask here instead of just blindly deleting folders. In Windows, for example, simply deleting application files causes problems because you are supposed to use the operating system's tools for safely removing programs.
@Gilles I think I will remain kinda stuck until the other VM finishes its yum clean all and yum update.
@Gilles But yes, Node.js is a server for javascript, much like tomcat is a server for java
@Gilles My understanding is that front end servers use Node.js to manage fulfillment of client requests for JavaScript apps, which of course ultimately run in the client browser. Thus Node.js enables an app to be separated into different servers for front end and backend components of a cloud app
@Gilles I finished creating and configuring the new CentOS 7 virtual machine. I also reported all my steps, along with my guesses for specific steps to take from here as an addition to the end of my OP. If you look carefully, you will see that I added an hr line --------------------------------------- before a line that includes @FaheemMitha that marks all the new content.
@Gilles Are you willing to review progress and plans to help me identify the specific list of commands to type to generate the list of files that are created during the tar installation of v0.12.7? Here is the link:
A CentOS 7 server has v0.12.7 of Node.js installed, and the installation was done using a tar. This is leading to conflicts when I try to install a more modern version of Node.js using yum. What specific steps need to be taken (i.e. what specific commands need to be typed) to safely remove the ...
A CentOS 7 server has v0.12.7 of Node.js installed, and the installation was done using a tar. This is leading to conflicts when I try to install a more modern version of Node.js using yum. What specific steps need to be taken (i.e. what specific commands need to be typed) to safely remove the ...
I'm writing a script that waits until a bunch of directories exist before starting a service. It basically consists of an infinite loop that breaks at the end, or continues if any of the needed directories aren't found. Simplified, the algorithm itself looks like
loop_while_false() {
trap co...
