how to uninstall zoneminder - to do a clean install ?

phaksp · Post by **phaksp** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 6:40 pm

everythins is in the title ...

Post by **zoneminder** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 12:03 am

Essentially delete everything in your instal bin directory that starts with zm. e.g.

rm /usr/local/bin/zm*

and then remove the web files

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rm -r /var/www/html/zm
rm /var/www/cgi-bin/*zms*

and finally drop the database

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mysql
> drop database zm;
> quit

I think that's all that comes to mind off the top of my head. You will have to change the paths to match your set up however.

Phil

Post by **zoneminder** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 10:09 am

Actually I've surprised myself as 'make uninstall' should pretty much work, if not then 'make -i uninstall'. The only things left might be zms and nph-zms in /var/www/cgi-bin (or whatever you have defined) and the directories under the zm web directory. You will have to manually delete those for now but Ive put some tweaks in the Makefile for future versions.

The database will still be left however and you will have to manually drop that and any users you may have created etc.

Phil

phaksp · Post by **phaksp** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 7:41 am

thanks

will use your tips

phaksp · Post by **phaksp** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 7:43 am

amazing, make uninstall works fine on debian. thanks phil

nph-zms does not remain in /var/www/cgi-bin

Post by **zoneminder** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 3:33 pm

Good. Though I'm not trying to encourage people to uninstall ZM of course!

Phil

phaksp · Post by **phaksp** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 4:23 pm

Smart monkeys wont uninstall this piece of art forever

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 4:50 pm

great comment!!