From 5240d3f36722c416f81c55774c7e7714c266aaf6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sebastian Spaeth Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 19:51:58 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] docs/INSTALL: How to uninstall Add a blurb on how to uninstall system wide installations. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth --- docs/INSTALL.rst | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/INSTALL.rst b/docs/INSTALL.rst index 684ca6f..e2ed87a 100644 --- a/docs/INSTALL.rst +++ b/docs/INSTALL.rst @@ -110,3 +110,23 @@ within the sample file. `OfflineIMAP`_ also ships a file named `offlineimap.conf.minimal` that you can also try. It's useful if you want to get started with the most basic feature set, and you can read about other features later with `offlineimap.conf`. + + +=============== +Uninstall +=============== + +If you installed a system-wide installation via "python setup.py +install", there are a few files to purge to uninstall it again. I assume +that /usr/local is the standard prefix that your system and you use +python 2.7. Adapt to your system. In that case you need to: + +1) Delete: + /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/offlineimap-6.4.4.egg-info + /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/offlineimap + +2) Delete the cache at (default location) ~/.offlineimap + Delete your manually created (default loc) ~/.offlineimaprc + (It is possible that you created those in different spots) + +That's it. Have fun without OfflineImap.