[Gdal-dev] how to uninstall gdal

Frank Warmerdam fwarmerdam at gmail.com
Fri Jul 8 17:21:48 EDT 2005


On 7/8/05, Xiaodong Zhang <zhang at aero.und.edu> wrote:
> Hi developers,
> 
> With all the love to gdal and high regards to the developers, I'm just
> curious to know how to uninstall gdal package once it is installed
> through ./configure, make, make install (as root). I'm not sure if I
> will ever need it, but it would be nice to know if this can be done or
> not. I tried "make uninstall", which did not work.
> 
> For the proj package, "make uninstall" seems working.
> 
> Appreciate if someone can drop a line or two. Thanks.

Xiadong, 

Sorry, make uninstall is not currently a feature of GDAL.  
If you need to be able to remove it, you could install it into
a GDAL specific tree with a configuration something like:

  ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/gdal

Best regards,
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