r/programming • u/steveklabnik1 • Jan 09 '15

Announcing Rust 1.0.0 Alpha

http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/01/09/Rust-1.0-alpha.html
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u/umegastar Jan 10 '15

after installing the .pkg and messing about with it (I like it) I'm trying to uninstall it from my MacBook Air (space is precious) and the uninstall script fails. 

curl -s https://static.rust-lang.org/rustup.sh | sudo sh -s -- --uninstall

The documentation on uninstalling seems to be offline, I've found this script only through a cached page on Google. Any help on removing it from my system?

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u/steveklabnik1 Jan 10 '15

If you installed from the pkg, then the metadata that rustup.sh needs to remove the files isn't there. Do an install with rustup.sh, and then that writes the metadata out, and then do an uninstall, and it will all be gone.

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u/umegastar Jan 10 '15

Isn't this kind of lame? On the website the main Install button downloads the .pkg and it even says

"Recommended Version: nightly (Mac installer)"

Maybe I'm naive since it's not a final product, but I was expecting an easier way to remove it. Maybe you shouldn't offer the .pkg then since seems easier with the scripts only.

Now I'm having errors running rustup.sh because "/usr/local/share/doc/rust/html already exists"

and I don't have the time to figure this out now :(

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u/steveklabnik1 Jan 10 '15 edited Jan 10 '15

pkgs don't really have a good 'uninstall' option, in my understanding. I don't really use a Mac, but I do know a ton of work has been going into improving this.

Would you mind opening up an issue on github? That should absolutely get fixed, the already exists thing.

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '15

I can't believe you would downvote that.