How Can I Uninstall Shairport?

Question

I have installed shairport on my raspberry pi by following various instructions but mainly from this:

http://snippets.khromov.se/raspberry-pi-shairport-build-instructions/

I would now like to know how to uninstall it but reversing the process does not seem to work. I also set it up to run automatically.

How do I completely remove shairport?

Answer 1

Did you try using dpkg to uninstall this package?

sudo dpkg -r shairport

If the boot script isn't automatically removed:

sudo chkconfig shairport off

or

sudo update-rc.d -f shairport remove

Also don't forget to remove this line in crontab (crontab -e):

* * * * * root /bin/sh /root/shairport-watchdog.sh > /dev/null

Answer 2

when you followed the instructions of this blog you can undo your steps like this:

1. remove shairport from boot scripts:

   sudo update-rc.d -f shairport remove

2. remove the init file

   sudo rm /etc/init.d/shairport

3. find the shairport program

   sudo find /usr -name 'shairport'

   the result will be in /usr/local/bin or /usr/sbin

4. delete the program

   sudo rm /path/to/file/shairport

5. search for soruces of shairport

   sudo find / -name 'shairport'

6. delete sources

   sudo rm -r /path/to/sources

maybe it is not recommented to purge the prereqirements you found in the blog post, becasue they might be used by other

i found the informations in this Blog post:

http://komputermaschine.blogspot.de/2015/01/shairport-vom-system-entfernen.html