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gtk ui for neovim
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Cleanup failed build, including downloaded dependencies #221

Closed felixendres closed 4 years ago

felixendres commented 4 years ago

Hi, I tried installing neovim-gtk from source on Ubuntu 16.04. I get an error during "make":

error: failed to run custom build command for gdk-sys v0.8.0 Caused by: process didn't exit successfully: /home/me/Code/neovim-gtk/target/debug/build/gdk-sys-ac97e9fc22e7264d/build-script-build (exit code: 1) --- stderr "pkg-config" "--libs" "--cflags" "gdk-3.0" "gdk-3.0 >= 3.22" did not exit successfully: exit code: 1 --- stderr Requested 'gdk-3.0 >= 3.22' but version of GDK is 3.18.9

I now would like to get my machine back to the prior state, but I don't know how to remove all the stuff that was downloaded during the attempted installation. I know how to do that for the debian packages, but I don't know about the stuff downloaded by the make-file. Is it all within the cloned repository, so that "rm -r" will suffice?

Could you please give me instructions for uninstallation, so I can reinstate the prior state of my system?

Thanks.

XVilka commented 4 years ago 
cargo clean; git clean -xdf

I should note that your Ubuntu version is very old, and for many Rust-based programs it can be a problem, the latest LTS version is 18.04 Bionic Beaver, while latest normal release is 19.10 Eoan Ermine. Thus I highly recommend to upgrade.

felixendres commented 4 years ago

Thanks. Didn't print any message, so I hope it worked. Can't update due to company policy.