How to uninstall mirdeep2 tool?

Question

[nivya.james2016]

Hi all,

I wanted to uninstall mirdeep2-master thats been installed in my ubuntu platform. Could someone help me with it?

Thanking You in advance

[Joe]

I know next to nothing about Perl, and what little I do is based around using perlbrew and cpanm (absolutely the best way to install perl stuff if you have the option), however a few seconds on google threw this up:

https://www.perl.com/article/3/2013/3/27/How-to-cleanly-uninstall-a-Perl-module/

[nivya.james2016]

Thank you so much jrj.healey for your help. I am trying the methods. Kindly help me again if i am not able to execute.

[nivya.james2016]

Hi jrj.healey,

I checked the link and was trying to do as per the instructions but came up with an error

shanthi@shanthi-client2:~/Desktop/Nivya$ perl uninstall_perl_module.pl mirdeep2-master
mirdeep2-master is not installed at uninstall_perl_module.pl line 15.

Could you tell me whats wrong? Thank you in advance

[Joe]

Are you sure the module is called exactly mirdeep2-master and not something else? How would you normally import it in Perl?

At a guess, it sounds like it hasn’t found a matching model for that particular syntax of the module name (or it isn’t actually installed after all)

[finswimmer]

It depends on how you've installed it. Via package manager? compiled on your own (how?)? Just extracted an archiv?

fin swimmer

[nivya.james2016]

I downloaded it from git-hub and extracted it. Then i installed it using sudo perl install.pl.

[finswimmer]

Hello nivya.james2016 ,

it is obviously to late, but: Never ever use sudo to install a program in linux, except for the package manager of your distribution. The package manager is the only one who know which files belong to which program and is able to remove all these files without violate any dependencies. Furthermore of you bypass the package manager for a system wide installation, you may get problems when installing a package via package manager later. Because than it will find files that do not belong to any package and will not know how to handle it.

In summary: Unfortunately A cannot help you on how you can uninstall mirdeep2 in your case.

For the future I recommend having a look at bioconda for easily installing and removing of bioinformatic tools. As an introduction on how to use it, you can have a look at the first part of a tutorial I've written some time ago.

fin swimmer

[nivya.james2016]

thank you so much for your help. I shall do this in future.