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Sorry to butt in but how do you manually delete a directory you have created or is there a uninstall method. Sorry no footnotes with this one! using Debian - ...
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    Sorry to butt in but how do you manually delete a directory you have created or is there a uninstall method.
    Sorry no footnotes with this one! using Debian - Kubuntu

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    Quote Originally Posted by darthman8 View Post
    Sorry to butt in but how do you manually delete a directory you have created or is there a uninstall method.
    Sorry no footnotes with this one! using Debian - Kubuntu
    You use rmdir to delete an empty directory. If the directory has contents, you can use rm to remove it e.g.
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    $rm -rf /path/to/some/dir
    Be very careful when using "rm -rf". Its irreversible, so if you use it wrongly, you can permanently delete the wrong files.

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    Thanks for that Daarkchild it worked great!

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