[pm-h] pm-uninstall - For uninstalling Perl Modules in a sane manner

[G. Wade Johnson]

Ooo, Nice. 

I hadn't seen that before.

G. Wade

On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 19:08:38 +0000 (GMT)
Robert Stone via Houston <houston at pm.org> wrote:

> Greetings, 
> 
> I found myself needing to uninstall a few modules today and
> historically I would just navigate to the site perl install in my
> perlbrew and rm -rf the relevant files, hoping that nothing else was
> sharing the namespace: 
> 
> 
> 
> [rstone at rstone 5.16.3]$ pwd 
> /home/rstone/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.3/lib/site_perl/5.16.3 
> [rstone at rstone 5.16.3]$ rm -rf Bad/Module/ 
> [rstone at rstone 5.16.3]$ 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I came across a blog post at
> http://scratching.psybermonkey.net/2011/02/perl-how-to-uninstall-delete-perl.html
> that talks about pm-uninstall, a program similar to cpanm that takes
> care of this task much more efficiently. It lists out what is going
> to be removed, mentions the deps, and handles man page updates (for
> those who use perldoc locally) as well as asks for conformation: 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> [rstone at rstone product]$ cpanm App::pmuninstall 
> --> Working on App::pmuninstall 
> Fetching
> http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/X/XA/XAICRON/App-pmuninstall-0.30.tar.gz ...
> OK Configuring App-pmuninstall-0.30 ... OK Building and testing
> App-pmuninstall-0.30 ... OK Successfully installed
> App-pmuninstall-0.30 1 distribution installed 
> [rstone at rstone product]$ pm-uninstall Math::Pari Math::BigInt::Pari 
> --> Working on Math::Pari 
> Math::Pari is included in the distribution Math-Pari and contains: 
> 
> /home/rstone/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.3/lib/site_perl/5.16.3/x86_64-linux/Math/Pari.pm 
> /home/rstone/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.3/lib/site_perl/5.16.3/x86_64-linux/Math/PariInit.pm 
> /home/rstone/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.3/lib/site_perl/5.16.3/x86_64-linux/Math/libPARI.dumb.pod 
> /home/rstone/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.3/lib/site_perl/5.16.3/x86_64-linux/Math/libPARI.pod 
> /home/rstone/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.3/lib/site_perl/5.16.3/x86_64-linux/auto/Math/Pari/Pari.so 
> /home/rstone/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.3/man/man3/Math::Pari.3 
> /home/rstone/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.3/man/man3/Math::PariInit.3 
> /home/rstone/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.3/man/man3/Math::libPARI.3 
> /home/rstone/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.3/man/man3/Math::libPARI.dumb.3 
> 
> Also, they're depended on by the following installed dists: 
> 
> Math-BigInt-Pari 
> 
> Are you sure you want to uninstall Math-Pari? [n] y 
> 
> Successfully uninstalled Math::Pari 
> 
> --> Working on Math::BigInt::Pari 
> Math::BigInt::Pari is included in the distribution Math-BigInt-Pari
> and contains: 
> 
> /home/rstone/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.3/lib/site_perl/5.16.3/Math/BigInt/Pari.pm 
> /home/rstone/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.3/man/man3/Math::BigInt::Pari.3 
> 
> Are you sure you want to uninstall Math-BigInt-Pari? [y] y 
> 
> Successfully uninstalled Math::BigInt::Pari 
> 
> You may want to rebuild man(1) entries. Try `mandb -c` if needed 
> 
> [rstone at rstone product]$ 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I found it quite handy and thought I'd share it for anyone else who
> may find themselves in a similar position. I'm also open to any other
> similar tools/methods you may have used in the past. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Happy uninstalling! 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Best Regards, 
> 
> Robert Stone 


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