Re: [Visualpython-users] Did I correctly uninstall everything?

[Bruce S. <ba...@an...>]

--On Friday, April 05, 2002 1:33 PM -0500 Kevin Cole 
<kj...@gr...> wrote:

> The VPython install put a whole lot of stuff on the system that I
> already had elsewhere, and failed to install VPython itself.  (I suspect
> it failed because it was anticipating its own flavor of Python 2.2 and
> whatever else would have been installed with that tarball.)

Sorry about that. Since you had already installed Python 2.2, you missed 
seeing the comment at the end of the Python 2.2 installation instructions 
about having to modify the Visual install script if Python 2.2 is in a 
different place. Thanks to your experience, I've moved this comment to the 
start of the VPython installation instructions.

A better installation scheme would be to use the Python distutils 
mechanism, which would put the burden on Python of figuring out where to 
put auxiliary files. David Andersen figured out the basic scheme for this, 
but we haven't yet put together a complete installer based on the distutils 
mechanism.

> I've decided to uninstall for the time being.  So far, I've removed the
> following trees and/or files:
>
>      /usr/local/bin/idle
>      /usr/share/doc/python/*
>      /usr/local/lib/python2.2/site-packages/Tools/*
>      /usr/local/lib/python2.2/site-packages/visual/*
>      /usr/share/python-visual/*
>
> Did I get everything that the VPython installer tinkered with?

Examining the VPython install file, the only thing I see that you missed is 
/usr/local/bin/visual-demos (an alias to bring up IDLE, pointing at the 
VPython demo programs).

Bruce Sherwood