Node will not delete on Linux Mint 13.
see the video here http://youtu.be/tV8HhS1xw2g and here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8DNvv3iFdI
I installed via git but node failed to run see https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/issues/73 for the tests I ran to try to get node to play nice.
so I uninstalled the git version and installed the Ubuntu v. apt-get install node $ which node /usr/local/bin/node
$ node --version
v0.5.11-pre
That node didn't work either... but I can't delete node now!
$ sudo apt-get remove node
[sudo] password for dennis:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package node is not installed, so not removed
It's not deleting but the system still sees it.
$ which node
/usr/local/bin/node
I tried the advice found on: Uninstall Node.JS using Linux command line? but that didn't work either.
$./configure --prefix=$HOME/local/node sudo make uninstall
bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
dennis@64maya /usr/local/src/ipython/examples/notebooks $ sudo ./configure --prefix=$HOME/local/node sudo make uninstall
sudo: ./configure: command not found
Node is still installed:
$ node --version
v0.5.11-pre
$ which node
/usr/local/bin/node
$ cd /usr/local/bin
$ ls
apt ipcluster3 iplogger3 irunner3 pycolor
easy_install ipcontroller iptest mint-md5sum pycolor3
easy_install-3.2 ipcontroller3 iptest3 node pygmentize
f2py3.2 ipengine ipython node-waf search
highlight ipengine3 ipython3 nosetests yelp
ipcluster iplogger irunner nosetests-3.2 zim
I tried dpkg... no joy.
$ dpkg -r node
dpkg: error: requested operation requires superuser privilege
dennis@64maya /usr/local/bin $ sudo dpkg -r node
dpkg: warning: there's no installed package matching node
dennis@64maya /usr/local/bin $ which node
/usr/local/bin/node
dennis@64maya /usr/local/bin $ node --version
v0.5.11-pre
How to delete all remnants of node so that I can eventually try to install it again?
Thank you Dennis
You don't need to. Just download again and
git clone https://github.com/joyent/node
cd node
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install
You will then overwrite all files from previous installation, since you keep --prefix=/usr/local the same, then the installation procedure should overwrite all files into the same relative file path, following /usr/local
Hope that helps!
You need to get the source from git again so that you can run the ./configure script and make script from within the source directory. The problem there too is that you used the wrong prefix, I think. Given the output from your which command which shows node is installed in /usr/local/bin/node, I think your --prefix is /usr/local/. So try:
./configure --prefix=/usr/local && sudo make uninstall
From within the source directory.