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| author | Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren@mac.com> | 2010-04-30 15:12:32 (GMT) |
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| committer | Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren@mac.com> | 2010-04-30 15:12:32 (GMT) |
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Merged revisions 80657 via svnmerge from
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r80657 | ronald.oussoren | 2010-04-30 17:11:22 +0200 (Fri, 30 Apr 2010) | 3 lines
Add notes about uninstalling a framework install to
Mac/README. Fixes issue 7107.
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@@ -205,6 +205,26 @@ Because of the way the script locates the files it needs you have to run it from within the BuildScript directory. The script accepts a number of command-line arguments, run it with --help for more information. + +Uninstalling a framework install, including the binary installer +================================================================ + +Uninstalling a framework can be done by manually removing all bits that got installed, +that's true for both installations from source and installations using the binary installer. +Sadly enough OSX does not have a central uninstaller. + +The main bit of a framework install is the framework itself, installed in +``/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework``. This can contain multiple versions +of Python, if you want to remove just one version you have to remove the +version-specific subdirectory: ``/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/X.Y``. +If you do that, ensure that ``/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current`` +is a symlink that points to an installed version of Python. + +A framework install also installs some applications in ``/Applications/Python X.Y``, + +And lastly a framework installation installs files in ``/usr/local/bin``, all of +them symbolic links to files in ``/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/X.Y/bin``. + Odds and ends ============= @@ -215,4 +235,4 @@ macresource module and the Mac/OSX/Makefile cater for this, and create files. Jack Jansen, Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl, 15-Jul-2004. - Ronald Oussoren, RonaldOussoren@mac.com, 26-May-2006 + Ronald Oussoren, RonaldOussoren@mac.com, 30-April-2010 |