Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How to uninstall pybombs 2.0

[West, Nathan]

On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 10:43 AM, Mike Markowski <address@hidden> wrote:

Richard,

To make installs/uninstalls easy at work I pull pybombs in using git and have targets install under /usr/local/gnuradio.  This has the advantage of putting everything under that directory tree.  Uninstalls are then a snap - just 'rm -rf' that directory!  The disadvantage is that some environment variables need to be updated to find libraries, python pkgs, etc.  But since our network is standalone it also makes it easy to simply move the gnuradio tree from net-connected machines to lab machines.  (Which in turn requires that all lab machines and a net-connected machine are more or less identical so that what pybombs does there works in the lab.)

Mike Markowski

On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 10:03 AM, Collins, Richard <address@hidden> wrote:

Scratch that.

Perhaps add this little nugget of info to the README? (for people like me)

I figured it out:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1231688/how-do-i-remove-packages-installed-with-pythons-easy-install

I didn't install pybombs via pip, but I installed pip (sudo apt-get python-pip) and ran "sudo pip uninstall pybombs", and it reported as working.  I'll have to check the directories to make sure, but I believe this works.

Richard

On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 9:50 AM, Collins, Richard <address@hidden> wrote:

Is there (or will there be) a correct way to uninstall pybombs 2.0.0?

I need to install a different branch of an OOT module quickly for work, and I don't want to install the old pybombs since it's already no longer supported. Also the configuration of pybombs2.0.0 seems (currently) harder than just doing it all with git and cmake (probably since I'm not a programmer).

This might be more of a feature request, because I don't see anything in setup.py (searching for "uninstall" or "remove"), and make uninstall doesn't work either. I like the idea of pybombs, but I suppose I'm not ready for it yet!

Thanks,

Richard

I suspect Richard is talking about the actual pybombs package and not the prefix. Working with pybombs2 is different enough from pybombs that it requires a small amount of effort to be productive again. The major shift is that the pybombs tool is not tied to a prefix (and config) the way pybombs1 was. Uninstalling python packages is also not necessarily intuitive and pip uninstall seems to be the "correct" way even if you didn't install with pip (which is weird).