6. mai 2014 kl. 15:34 skrev Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) <jsquy...@cisco.com>:

> On May 6, 2014, at 9:32 AM, Imran Ali <imra...@student.matnat.uio.no> wrote:
> 
>> I will attempt that than. I read at
>> 
>> http://www.open-mpi.org/faq/?category=building#install-overwrite 
>> 
>> that I should completely uninstall my previous version.
> 
> Yes, that is best.  OR: you can install into a whole separate tree and ignore 
> the first installation.
> 
>> Could you recommend to me how I can go about doing it (without root access).
>> I am uncertain where I can use make uninstall.
> 
> If you don't have write access into the installation tree (i.e., it was 
> installed via root and you don't have root access), then your best bet is 
> simply to install into a new tree.  E.g., if OMPI is installed into 
> /opt/openmpi-1.6.2, try installing into /opt/openmpi-1.6.5, or even 
> $HOME/installs/openmpi-1.6.5, or something like that.

My install was in my user directory (i.e $HOME). I managed to locate the source 
directory and successfully run make uninstall.

Will let you know how things went after installation.

Imran

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