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How to safely uninstall bioperl that was installed via CPAN?

I installed BioPerl via CPAN. Several tests got failed and I force installed it. I now want to install it via ubuntu software centre.

Can anyone describe how to remove BioPerl that was installed via CPAN using method given here.

Solution

  • If you'd like to clean up what cpan did first, I would start by running this:

    perl -mBio::Perl -e 'print $::INC{"Bio/Perl.pm"}."\n"'

    That will show you a path that ends in something like:

    ...lib/perl/5.10.0/Bio/Perl.pm

    I'd just rm -rf the entire Bio directory.

    BioPerl also installs a bunch of man pages, probably in /usr/share/man/man3 or /usr/local/share/man/man3. So I'd then run

    rm -rf /usr{,/local}/share/man/man3/Bio::*.3pm

    There are also files that get put in /usr/bin, and accompying man pages. Remove those with:

    rm -rf /usr/{,/local}/bin/bp_*.pl
rm -rf /usr/{,/local}/share/man/man1/bp_*.pl.1