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wsdfhjxc / virtual-desktop-bar

A pager panel widget for KDE Plasma
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"sudo make uninstall" fails with an error message #39

Closed lyndhurst closed 3 years ago

lyndhurst commented 3 years ago

Hi,

I am trying to uninstall the widget on an up to date, and clean KDE neon VM.

The following commands run successfully:

git clone https://github.com/wsdfhjxc/virtual-desktop-bar
cd virtual-desktop-bar
./scripts/install-ubuntu-deps.sh -y
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make

Then, sudo make uninstall returns the following error message:

Scanning dependencies of target uninstall CMake Error at ecm_uninstall.cmake:2 (message): Cannot find install manifest: /home/neon/virtual-desktop-bar/build/install_manifest.txt

make[3]: [CMakeFiles/uninstall.dir/build.make:57: CMakeFiles/uninstall] Error 1 make[2]: [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:309: CMakeFiles/uninstall.dir/all] Error 2 make[1]: [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:316: CMakeFiles/uninstall.dir/rule] Error 2 make: [Makefile:279: uninstall] Error 2

Thank you for your time.

wsdfhjxc commented 3 years ago

This might sound counter-intuitive, but you first need to do sudo make install and then you'll be able to cleanly do sudo make uninstall. That's because make needs to know about all of the installed files, and sudo make install generates some hints. If the hints are missing, make is clueless and unable to remove these files. It's a side-effect of installing software from source.

lyndhurst commented 3 years ago

Thanks for taking the time to explain that in details. Even if it is counter-intuitive as you pointed, it does make sense now. I am trying to build a script to automate the installation of all my favorites KDE applications and widgets, so, I am sure this piece of knowledge is gonna be useful more than once. Thanks again.