[racket] Uninstalling Racket

Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan wrote at 02/14/2011 11:21 PM:
> On a GNU/Linux system, how do I uninstall a previous install of Racket, built and installed from git source? 
This has come up before.  I don't know whether someone made a tool for 
uninstalls, but if you install a new tree using the practice below, you 
can then get a file list from that tree, and from that generate a script 
that removes those files (but under "/usr" or "/usr/local" or wherever 
you put them before).  You'll want to inspect the script before running, 
of course, to make sure it's not removing something you don't want it to.

One way to make uninstalling installs from source easy, and to get an 
additional benefit, is to use the "--prefix" option to "configure" to 
put a Racket installation into its own directory tree.

My consulting work requires me to have a few different Racket versions 
installed at once, so I always install as 
"/usr/local/<PLT-OR-RACKET>-<VERSION>".  I also have consulting clients 
do this, if they can't use the ".deb" or ".rpm" for some reason.  On the 
computer I'm typing on right now, this looks like:

$ cd /usr/local
$ ls -d plt* racket*
plt-4.2.5  plt-5.0.1       racket-5.0.2
plt-5.0    plt-mflatt-gr2  racket-pre-20110208

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