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On Tuesday, Aug 26, 2003, at 12:20 US/Pacific, Greenhalgh David wrote: > This may be the wrong forum to ask this... > > How do I uninstall a module downloaded from CPAN? Specifically, I > cannot get the DBD::MySQL driver to install under OS X. It refuses to > find the mysql_config file, and when I run Makefile again with the -L > and -I switches it won't work after install. > > I am running the Complete MySQL distribution which has worked before, > but since this installs into /usr/Library and not /usr/local, I am > wondering if the module ignores symlinks to /usr/local. Hence I want > to pull everything out and reload the MySQL AB distribution and try > again. A quick search shows DBD in dozens of places, in perl/ in DBI/ > in mySQL/ etc etc, which ones do I trash? I just noticed that you have also put up something to the macOSX group - which may be more useful in all of this. As a general rule, there is not specific 'uninstall' mechanism that comes with CPAN modules. But you might try the make uninstall to see if the package came with one. You will also probably want to look at how they ran any 'configure' type things - normally done with the perl Makefile.PL to spin up the Makefile for the make test phase. HTH... ciao drieux ---Thread Previous