How to remove Ruby 1.9.1 correctly

Question

Hi :) I manually installed Ruby 1.9.1. I installed it through

./configure --prefix=/opt
make
make install

The target "uninstall" does not exist in the generated Makefile ...
How do I uninstall correctly?

PS: I also believe that you need to remove all the gems.
For this I use

#!/bin/sh
gem list --local | grep [^\*] | cut -d ' ' -f 1 | xargs gem uninstall

Answer 1

I had a similar problem with other software installed in /opt. I solved the problem with

• creating an empty directory elsewhere (e.g. /tmp/ruby)
• install the same version that you want to remove in this directory
• , /tmp/ruby /opt.

unix :

$ find /tmp/ruby | sed "s/\/tmp\/ruby\//\/opt\//"

, , :

$ find /tmp/ruby | sed "s/\/tmp\/ruby\//\/opt\//" | xargs rm

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