[osgeo4w-dev] where does osgeo4w-setup keep the state of installed/uninstalled apps?

Jürgen E. Fischer jef at norbit.de
Mon May 19 11:21:29 PDT 2014


Hi Giovanni,

On Mon, 19. May 2014 at 14:44:32 +0200, G. Allegri wrote:
> I need to completely uninstall QGIS from a machine. Having had problems
> with the removal from osgeo4w-setup (a lot of stuff remaining around),

And what remained?

> and finally I thought I should have removed the lines from osgeo4w-setup's
> setup.ini.

setup.ini lists the available packages.

> Running osgeo4w-setup.exe I was surprised to see QGIS still flagged as
> installed. Where does osgeo4w-setup keep the state of installed/uninstalled
> applications?

The installed packages are in etc/setup/installed.db.


Jürgen

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