Uninstalling older versions of Octave on a Mac

[John W. Eaton]

On  2-Dec-2007, Samuel H. Dupree, Jr. wrote:

| I'm running several versions of Octave running on my Mac G4 (running Mac 
| OS X version 10.4.11): 2.1.73, 2.9.9 and 2.9.17. I would like to 
| uninstall 2.1.73 and 2.9.9 cleanly and completely. Does anyone have a 
| script to do this?

If you still have the build trees, then "make uninstall" will do (most
of) it.

If you plan to install multiple versions of Octave, I always recommend
using something like --prefix=/usr/local/octave/2.9.17 so that
everything is installed under a single directory tree.  Then removing
is as simple as "rm -rf /usr/local/octave/2.9.17".

jwe