How to cleanly uninstall ansible

Question

Running debian jessie

I installed Ansible using the following procedure:

apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python-yaml python-pip python-jinja2 python-paramiko pip
git clone https://github.com/ansible/ansible.git
cd ansible
git submodule update --init --recursive
sudo make install 

Is there a way to cleanly uninstall Ansible that does not involve sifting through my directory tree and deleting?

The aim is to reinstall Ansible version 1.9 instead of the latest 2.1.0

Solution 1

Your best bet is to install checkinstall, run the install again under checkinstalls control, and then use dpkg to remove things.

https://wiki.debian.org/CheckInstall

Solution 2

There is a directory list in the source code repo telling you which directories ( and files ) are created. This is used to build the .deb package, but you can easily use it the other way around:

packaging/debian/ansible.dirs

Solution 3

if you have installed on redhat centos based systems you can do below to uninstall ansible cleanly and similar command for ubuntu debian based systems

rpm -qa | grep ansible | xargs rpm -e

rpm -qa | grep -i epel | xargs rpm -e

else yum remove ansible

Comments

[Chizl]

doesn't work anymore. rpm: no packages given for erase