any tips on clean uninstall?

[Scott]

Anyone -

Is there a preferred way to do a clean uninstall of all things bigblue -  I'd like to  avoid the issue I ran into in upgrading from .71 -> .71a, if possible..I already have .71 installed on my actual server..

[Fred Dixon]

Hi Scott,

If you have a generic 0.71 BigBlueButton server, the packaging will
cleanly upgrade everything to 0.71a. That is the preferred way.

If you want to do a uninstall of BigBlueButton, you can try the following:

sudo /etc/init.d/red5 stop
sudo apt-get --force-yes -y purge red5

echo "Removing old copy of BigBlueButton"
sudo apt-get --force-yes -y purge bbb-apps
sudo apt-get --force-yes -y purge bbb-apps-deskshare
sudo apt-get --force-yes -y purge bbb-apps-sip
sudo apt-get --force-yes -y purge bbb-apps-video
sudo apt-get --force-yes -y purge bbb-client
sudo apt-get --force-yes -y purge bbb-common
sudo apt-get --force-yes -y purge bbb-config
sudo apt-get --force-yes -y purge bbb-freeswitch-config
sudo apt-get --force-yes -y purge bbb-openoffice-headless
sudo apt-get --force-yes -y purge bbb-web

Using purge will remove all the configuration files as well. Note,
this still leaves BigBlueButton's dependencies installed. For
example, if bbb-openoffice-headless depends on openoffice.org (which
it does), purging bbb-openoffice-headless still leaves openoffice.org
installed. That's the way packaging works.

Regards,... Fred

[Scott]

Hey Fred,

Upgrading is my preferred choice - I'm going to continue to play around with my upgraded .71a instance, as I want this to mimic the server. The only issue is my branding works 100% on clean install, but I can't get even the background image to embed on the upgraded instance, which is now only loading original skinning. Uninstalling /purging is my absolute last resort for my server. Do you have any tips on getting that to work?

[Fred Dixon]

Hi Scott,

The upgrade scripts in the packaging should work (they have been tested over multiple releases) but it's possible we missed something related to the branding.

We'll take a closer look.

Regards,... Fred

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Scott <swo...@baker.edu> wrote:

Hey Fred,

Upgrading is my preferred choice - I'm going to continue to play around with my upgraded .71a instance, as I want this to mimic the server. The only issue is my branding works 100% on clean install, but I can't get even the background image to embed on the upgraded instance, which is now only loading original skinning. Uninstalling /purging is my absolute last resort for my server. Do you have any tips on getting that to work?

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[Scott]

Fred,

Just thought I'd give you an FYI - the clean uninstall commands listed previously worked like a charm - successfully uninstalled .71, clean install of .71a went a-ok on my server. Thanks for your assistance!