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olletsocmit

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I recently installed Lync on my 2010 Macbook Pro to do some stuff with geektools. I want to now remove Lynx from my Mac but can not figure out how? I don't know where all the files are. is there a terminal command to completely remove it? ...or someone said something about a packet manager to uninstall it? I cant seen to find the right answer out any where. Nothing about removing it on their site either.

Here is the site: http://www.osxgnu.org/software/pkgdetail.html?project_id=226

I downloaded and installed ver 13, its the 2nd one down.
 
Did you install it using the install.command script that's part of the download? If so, it won't be hard to manually uninstall. Let us know.

[Edit] If you installed using the install.command script, then open Terminal (in Utilities) and enter the following lines, one at a time. You'll likely be asked for your password after the first:

Code:
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/etc/lynx.cfg
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/etc/lynx.lss
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/bin/lynx
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/lib/libssl.0.9.8.dylib
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/lib/libssl.dylib
sudo rm -rf /usr/bin/lynx

Drag Lynx.command from the Applications folder to the trash.

Also, in Terminal, please enter

cd /usr/local; ls -la

and post the output.
 
Thanks. I did all the terminal commands you told me and then entered the last one you gave me. This is the output:

tc-macbook-pro:~ timothycostello$ cd /usr/local; ls -la
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 7 root wheel 238 Sep 17 04:39 .
drwxr-xr-x@ 11 root wheel 374 May 30 17:05 ..
drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 170 Sep 17 12:51 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 68 Sep 17 12:51 etc
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 Sep 8 02:33 include
drwxr-xr-x 12 root wheel 408 Sep 17 12:52 lib
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 Sep 17 04:39 share
tc-macbook-pro:local timothycostello$
 
Thanks. I did all the terminal commands you told me and then entered the last one you gave me. This is the output:

tc-macbook-pro:~ timothycostello$ cd /usr/local; ls -la
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 7 root wheel 238 Sep 17 04:39 .
drwxr-xr-x@ 11 root wheel 374 May 30 17:05 ..
drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 170 Sep 17 12:51 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 68 Sep 17 12:51 etc
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 Sep 8 02:33 include
drwxr-xr-x 12 root wheel 408 Sep 17 12:52 lib
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 Sep 17 04:39 share
tc-macbook-pro:local timothycostello$

OK. Based on my reading of the install.command script, you've removed all the lynx-specific files. I'd call it uninstalled.
 
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