Re: How to uninstall packages

2007-07-01 Thread Jorge Vargas
On 7/1/07, Rustom Mody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah sure thats what is (finally) working but its never clear upfront > for a package what its dependency needs are -- linux version of DLL > hell. And it gets worse for systems that are little worlds in > themselves like python, ruby, eclipse, w

Re: How to uninstall packages

2007-07-01 Thread Rustom Mody
Yeah sure thats what is (finally) working but its never clear upfront for a package what its dependency needs are -- linux version of DLL hell. And it gets worse for systems that are little worlds in themselves like python, ruby, eclipse, webmin etc. because they have their own package-management

Re: How to uninstall packages

2007-07-01 Thread Thomas Jollans
On Sunday 01 July 2007, Rustom Mody wrote: > I first installed the debian package python-pysqlite1.1 using > synaptic. Since this seemed too old for other packages (sqlalchemy) I > downloaded the sources pysqlite-2.3.4.tar.gz and ran setup install. I wonder why you chose not to use python-pysqli

Re: How to uninstall packages

2007-07-01 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> So now my question: How does one uninstall *cleanly* > > 1> a package installed using setup.py install > 2> a package installed with easy_install Run "setup.py install" with the --record option; then remove all files that have been recorded as installed. This is clean depending on the packag

How to uninstall packages

2007-06-30 Thread Rustom Mody
Recently I had trouble with the sqlite package under my debian etch box as follows: I first installed the debian package python-pysqlite1.1 using synaptic. Since this seemed too old for other packages (sqlalchemy) I downloaded the sources pysqlite-2.3.4.tar.gz and ran setup install. This gave th