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From: crispin sparg <crispinsparg <at> yahoo.co.uk>
To: "bug-gzip <at> gnu.org" <bug-gzip <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Uninstall
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 10:05:43 +0000 (UTC)

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Hi GNU Team
I hope you can help me. I have had a tech from a ISP tell me to install gzip. now we can't uninstall it. 
Please tell me how I can uninstall gzip.
 Thanks and regards
Crispin Sparg

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From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: crispin sparg <crispinsparg <at> yahoo.co.uk>, 22476 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22476: Uninstall
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 09:45:43 -0700

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On 01/27/2016 03:05 AM, crispin sparg wrote:
> Hi GNU Team

[In the future, please don't post 300k screenshots to a mailing list
that reaches hundreds of people - it causes an explosion of bandwidth in
the mail server, and not all recipients have unlimited data plans; if
you absolutely must use an image, post the image externally and just
include a URL to the image in your mail]

> I hope you can help me. I have had a tech from a ISP tell me to install gzip. now we can't uninstall it. 
> Please tell me how I can uninstall gzip.

You didn't tell us HOW you installed it (built from source? downloaded a
pre-built binary?), so it's kind of hard to give exact steps for
uninstalling it.  You didn't even tell us what operating system you use.

Generally, uninstalling gzip is as simple as finding the files you
installed and deleting them. If you built from source, 'make uninstall'.
 If you ran a package manager, then use that same package manager to
uninstall it (although that may be a question better directed to your
distro's support for using their package manager).  But gzip is
relatively small, and in all likelihood will come in handy on your
system in the future; do you really need to uninstall it at all, if it
is not actively hurting your disk space?

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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Message #13 received at 22476-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
Cc: 22476-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, crispin sparg <crispinsparg <at> yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: bug#22476: Uninstall
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 19:03:48 -0700

tags 22476 notabug
done

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 8:45 AM, Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com> wrote:
> On 01/27/2016 03:05 AM, crispin sparg wrote:
>> Hi GNU Team
>
> [In the future, please don't post 300k screenshots to a mailing list
> that reaches hundreds of people - it causes an explosion of bandwidth in
> the mail server, and not all recipients have unlimited data plans; if
> you absolutely must use an image, post the image externally and just
> include a URL to the image in your mail]
>
>> I hope you can help me. I have had a tech from a ISP tell me to install gzip. now we can't uninstall it.
>> Please tell me how I can uninstall gzip.
...

Thank you for replying, Eric.
I'm closing this issue as "notabug".

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