Uninstalling MacPorts

[romulus1@…]

Hello:

I Just installed Mac Ports - I have not done anything with it yet. What is the proper procedure to uninstall it? can the opt menu be deleted as the complete uninstall procedure in this case? Secondly, What if I start to use the application, will the uninstall process change?

During the installation has the application made changes to anything on the mac, or has it just installed everything in one directory and that's it. What I am thinking is are their environment variables such as Microsoft's OS that I would need to consider removing as part of the procedure?

Thanks for the product and the anticipation of answering these questions.

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[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

Replying to romulus1@…:

What is the proper procedure to uninstall it?

​Click here for directions to uninstall Macports.

can the opt menu be deleted as the complete uninstall procedure in this case?

What is the opt menu?

Secondly, What if I start to use the application, will the uninstall process change?

No, everything will be in /opt/local/

During the installation has the application made changes to anything on the mac, or has it just installed everything in one directory and that's it. What I am thinking is are their environment variables such as Microsoft's OS that I would need to consider removing as part of the procedure?

There should be nothing else affected. You can adjust your .profile to remove /opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin from your path though.

[romulus1@…]

Thanks for your reply,

I meant "Can the opt directory be deleted as the complete uninstall procedure in this case?" Essentially deleting the opt directory + removing the .profile entry specified should be equivalent to running the sudo rm -rf command on a mac OS, right?

I am researching other sites to get answers to other questions that I have pertaining to MacPorts. The one other question that I just need to ask is: does the application track installations as they occur. Let's say I install one of your port packages; I'm guessing that deleting just the opt directory would not be sufficient to remove MacPorts in addition to the ports, correct?; I am not sure about the command. If everything goes to directory; MacPorts and the ports; then I guess both methods of uninstalling would work.

On Sep 18, 2009, at 12:51 PM, MacPorts wrote:

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

Replying to romulus1@…:

I meant "Can the opt directory be deleted as the complete uninstall procedure in this case?" Essentially deleting the opt directory + removing the .profile entry specified should be equivalent to running the sudo rm -rf command on a mac OS, right?

I mispoke above, the only way to delete everything is to use rm command listed in the link which includes more than what is simply in /opt/local/. There are other directories used.

I am researching other sites to get answers to other questions that I have pertaining to MacPorts. The one other question that I just need to ask is: does the application track installations as they occur. Let's say I install one of your port packages; I'm guessing that deleting just the opt directory would not be sufficient to remove MacPorts in addition to the ports, correct?; I am not sure about the command. If everything goes to directory; MacPorts and the ports; then I guess both methods of uninstalling would work.

port does have a registry of installed ports and all of the files installed and where they are located. But as i said above, you must use the full rm command to delete everything. It is true that most of the files will be in /opt/local/.