How do I uninstall LinuxSampler on Mac OS?

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How do I uninstall LinuxSampler on Mac OS?

Post by U2TributeBand » Thu Apr 30, 2020 11:41 pm

Hi,

I need to uninstall LinuxSampler on Mac OS. What is the best way to do that?

Also, when I run "brew doctor" on the command line it gives me a list of unexpected dylibs (see below) that I believe were installed by LinuxSampler. I need to confirm that before deleting them.

Thanks,
Chris

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  /usr/local/lib/libFLAC.8.2.0.dylib
  /usr/local/lib/libFLAC.8.dylib
  /usr/local/lib/libatk-1.0.0.dylib
  /usr/local/lib/libatkmm-1.6.1.dylib
  /usr/local/lib/libcairo.2.dylib
  /usr/local/lib/libcairomm-1.0.1.dylib
  /usr/local/lib/libffi.6.dylib
  /usr/local/lib/libfontconfig.1.dylib
  /usr/local/lib/libftd2xx.1.2.2.dylib
  /usr/local/lib/libgailutil.18.dylib
  /usr/local/lib/libgdk-quartz-2.0.0.dylib
  /usr/local/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.0.dylib
  /usr/local/lib/libgdkmm-2.4.1.dylib
  /usr/local/lib/libgig.7.dylib
  /usr/local/lib/libgigedit.3.dylib
  /usr/local/lib/libgio-2.0.0.dylib
  /usr/local/lib/libgiomm-2.4.1.dylib
  /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.0.dylib
  /usr/local/lib/libglibmm-2.4.1.dylib
  /usr/local/lib/libgmodule-2.0.0.dylib
  /usr/local/lib/libgobject-2.0.0.dylib
  /usr/local/lib/libgthread-2.0.0.dylib
  /usr/local/lib/libgtk-quartz-2.0.0.dylib
  /usr/local/lib/libgtkmm-2.4.1.dylib
  /usr/local/lib/libintl.8.dylib
  /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.8.dylib
  /usr/local/lib/liblinuxsampler.4.dylib
  /usr/local/lib/libogg.0.dylib
  /usr/local/lib/libpango-1.0.0.dylib
  /usr/local/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.0.dylib
  /usr/local/lib/libpangomm-1.4.1.dylib
  /usr/local/lib/libpixman-1.0.dylib
  /usr/local/lib/libpng15.15.dylib
  /usr/local/lib/libsigc-2.0.0.dylib
  /usr/local/lib/libsndfile.1.dylib
  /usr/local/lib/libtiff.3.dylib
  /usr/local/lib/libvorbis.0.dylib
  /usr/local/lib/libvorbisenc.2.dylib
  

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Re: How do I uninstall LinuxSampler on Mac OS?

Post by cuse » Sat May 02, 2020 10:34 pm

Have you tried pkgutil?

List installed packages:

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pkgutil --pkgs
List files of package:

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pkgutil --files org.linuxsampler
Unfortunately Apple remove the uninstall command. So you would need to delete the listed files manually and then let pkgutil "forget" the package(s):

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sudo pkgutil --forget org.linuxsampler
Or ... you also find some shell commands on the net by people which would remove the files automatically by piping the output of pkgutil --files to rm.

AFAICS, we currently have the following 12 packages that you would need to uninstall:
  1. org.linuxsampler
  2. org.linuxsampler.codecs
  3. org.linuxsampler.fantasia
  4. org.linuxsampler.gigedit
  5. org.linuxsampler.gigtools
  6. org.linuxsampler.libgig
  7. org.linuxsampler.libgigedit
  8. org.linuxsampler.libgtk
  9. org.linuxsampler.liblinuxsampler
  10. org.linuxsampler.au
  11. org.linuxsampler.vst
  12. org.linuxsampler.qsampler

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