topic Uninstalling intel compiler in Intel® Fortran Compiler

Uninstalling intel compiler

mecipema — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 07:14:38 GMT

My first installation of the intel fortran compiler didnt sort of went successfully. Instead of uninstalling the compiler I deleted the folder /opt/intel. Now when I try to install again, it is asking to uninstall the exisisting one, whose folder doesn't exist. What should I do? Please help me out

Uninstalling intel compiler

mecipema — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 08:53:00 GMT

Why is nobody replaying anything. Please try to help

Uninstalling intel compiler

Kevin_D_Intel — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 09:12:43 GMT

I think most everyone else is still sleeping. Its really early AM in the US. :-)

I'm guessing you're using Linux in which case the blocking issue likely relates to the RPM database entries that you must remove first and then retry the installation.

To determine the RPM database entries to remove, execute: rpm -qa | grep intel

As "root", you need to remove the entries manually using: rpm -e

Replace above with the name of a RPMfrom the first command. Repeat as necessary until all RPM "intel" entries are removed, then retry the installation.

Uninstalling intel compiler

mecipema — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:05:38 GMT

First of all, a lot of thanks for helping.

Though I deleted a few files from the rpm by the way u mentioned, many are showing errors like,

"error: "intel-cprof064-11.1-1" specifies multiple packages

error: Failed dependencies:
intel-cprolib069 is needed by (installed) intel-cprolibdev069-11.1-1.i486
intel-cprolib069 is needed by (installed) intel-cproflib069-11.1-1.i486
"
and are not getting deleted.

Please suggest some solution. I am using Open Suse 11.2 as OS. Thank u Once again

Uninstalling intel compiler

Kevin_D_Intel — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:15:57 GMT

Happy to help.

I don't have RPM entries handy at the moment to try this, but have you tried removing those specifically with:

rpm -e intel-cprolibdev069-11.1-1
rpm -e intel-cproflib069-11.1-1

Uninstalling intel compiler

mecipema — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:34:40 GMT

Sir,
With your help I have successfully removed all the "Failed Dependency errors". But the erros that still persists are,
error: "intel-cproflib064-11.1-1" specifies multiple packages

error: "intel-cprolib064-11.1-1" specifies multiple packages

error: "intel-cprolibdev064-11.1-1" specifies multiple packages

error: "intel-cprolibdev064-11.1-1" specifies multiple packages

error: "intel-cproflib064-11.1-1" specifies multiple packages

error: "intel-cpromklib064-11.1-1" specifies multiple packages

error: "intel-cpromklib064-11.1-1" specifies multiple packages

error: "intel-cprolib064-11.1-1" specifies multiple packages

Thanks in advance for your next reply

Uninstalling intel compiler

Kevin_D_Intel — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 11:48:03 GMT

Ok, try the long command below. Its equivalent to what the uninstall.sh executes. Its one very long command-line (no line breaks). Hopefully you can cut-n-paste from the Forum window to your terminal window on the Linux system:

rpm -e --nodeps --allmatches intel-cpromklib064-11.1-1 intel-cproflib064-11.1-1 intel-cproidbsdk064-11.1-1 intel-cpromklib064-11.1-1 intel-cprolibdev064-11.1-1 intel-cprolib064-11.1-1 intel-cpromkl064-11.1-1 intel-cprof064-11.1-1 intel-cpromklibdev064-11.1-1 intel-cprof064-11.1-1 intel-cprolibdev064-11.1-1 intel-cpromklibdev064-11.1-1 intel-cproflib064-11.1-1 intel-cproidb064-11.1-1 intel-cprolib064-11.1-1 intel-cprofsdk064-11.1-1

If you want to try clearing each of your remaining entries seperately, an example would be:

rpm -e --nodeps --allmatches intel-cprolibdev064-11.1-1

Uninstalling intel compiler

TimP — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 12:55:40 GMT

Where you have dependencies between installed rpms, you must remove them all with a single command, or start at the tail of the chain and work backwards, as Kevin describes.

Uninstalling intel compiler

Ron_Green — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:10:54 GMT

After you get all the rpm entries removed, and if you installed as a non-root user, remove the directory ~/intel

ron

Uninstalling intel compiler

Kevin_D_Intel — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:27:41 GMT

My understanding isthat non-root users cannot modify the RPM database. The user removed /opt/intel which landed them in this predicament.

My only parting advice is, next time, use the /bin//uninstall_cprof.sh (where is ia32, intel64 or ia64 as appropriate for your installation) script provided with the compiler. See the 11.1Installation Guide and Release Notes (section 2.4) for specific instructions.

Uninstalling intel compiler

Thomas_Zebrowski — Tue, 25 May 2010 08:34:45 GMT

Hi,

unfortunately, I was stupid enough to do almost exactely the same thing (intel c++ compiler suite11.1-072 on ubuntu 10.04, originally installed with a silent install). So the install script does not allow for a new installation but the installation folder is gone.

I tried your suggestion and did the rpm query for intel: rpm -qa | grep intel
I got no results back. So I tried: rpm -qa
Still no results! So I guess there are no rpm entries left?

What am I doing wrong? I tried the following line earlier: rpm -e --allmatches `rpm -qa | grep intel-cpro | grep 072 | grep 11-1`
as found here: http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-compilers-for-linux-version-111-silent-installation-guide/
Most probably this deleted all rpm entries already?!
However, when I try it once again I get the following message: "rpm: please use alien to install rpm packages on Debian, if you are really sure use --force-debian switch. See README.Debian for more details."

Still, the install script will not run because it claims there is the compiler installed.

What else can I do?

Uninstalling intel compiler

Ron_Green — Tue, 25 May 2010 14:04:02 GMT

Ubuntu is based on Debian. Did you use the --force-debian switch?

ron

Uninstalling intel compiler

Kevin_D_Intel — Tue, 25 May 2010 15:19:49 GMT

Your install would be a NONRPM flavor which is why you're not seeing any information via rpm. As such, the installation anchor you must remove resides in the $HOME/intel directory of the associated user account used when installing the compiler.

So, to install the same release again under that same user account you first must remove the following file: $HOME/intel/intel_sdp_products.db

Uninstalling intel compiler

Thomas_Zebrowski — Tue, 25 May 2010 17:12:34 GMT

Hi guys,

thank you for your help. The file resides in my case (installed as root) not in $HOME/intel but in /opt/intel/. After renaming this file ... installation worked again.
Once again, thank you very much for the help! You saved me a complete reinstall of the system. :)

Thomas

Uninstalling intel compiler

Kevin_D_Intel — Tue, 25 May 2010 17:41:32 GMT

Ah yes, that's correct for the root account install. Thanks for clarifying. Glad the clue helped.