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  • Uninstalling Kerberos from /usr/local

    From Goetz Golla@mit@sec4mail.de to kerberos on Fri Nov 21 23:02:47 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.protocols.kerberos

    Hi there,

    I once installed krb5 Release 1.20.2 from sources to /usr/local on a
    debian 12 server.
    Meanwhile we are on Debian 13 and 1.21.3 comes as debian packages, which
    is just what I need.
    But before installing the deb packages I would need to uninstall the old release in /usr/local.
    What is the best way to do this ? Is it really true that there is no
    "make uninstall", so I might
    have to remove the over 100 files manually from various subdirs in
    /usr/local ?

    Goetz

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  • From Greg Hudson@ghudson@mit.edu to Goetz Golla on Sat Nov 22 03:29:33 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.protocols.kerberos

    On 11/21/25 17:02, Goetz Golla wrote:
    But before installing the deb packages I would need to uninstall the old release in /usr/local.
    What is the best way to do this ? Is it really true that there is no
    "make uninstall" [...]
    There is no "make uninstall".

    You could prepare a list of files to remove using:

    make install DESTDIR=/tmp/unkrb
    find /tmp/unkrb -type f | sed -e 's|^/tmp/unkrb||' > /tmp/list

    Removing those would leave behind any directories created by make
    install, but they should be harmless. The same find command with "-type
    d" instead of "-type f" will give you the directory list, if you want to inspect it for directories to remove.

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