# Removing gnuradio 3.6 and reinstalling 3.7 with build-gnu radio

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**Category:** GNU Radio\
**Created:** [July 14, 2014, 2:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/removing-gnuradio-3-6-and-reinstalling-3-7-with-build-gnu-radio/230948 "2014-07-14T14:41:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![addis\_a](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/c4cdca/32.png) [@addis\_a](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/addis_a)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 2:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/removing-gnuradio-3-6-and-reinstalling-3-7-with-build-gnu-radio/230948/1 "2014-07-14T14:41:33Z")

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I have a system that is remotely deployed. I have ssh access to the  
machine and some limited Vnc. I do not have physical access to do a  
fresh OS install.

In looking at my install, it looks like I got 3.6 for most stuff, but a  
fair amount of 3.7 is ‘tainting’ the install. I’d like to remove  
everything and do a clean install with Mr Leech’s build-gnuradio. (Thank  
you, good script! Everyone should donate! )

Any suggestions for pulling out the old stuff? Do I just delete out the  
stuff in /use/local ? Seems dangerous?

Jim

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**Author:** ![wolfmanjm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/3da27b/32.png) [@wolfmanjm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wolfmanjm)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2014, 5:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/removing-gnuradio-3-6-and-reinstalling-3-7-with-build-gnu-radio/230948/2 "2014-07-18T17:54:08Z")

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On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Jim M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> stuff in /use/local ? Seems dangerous?
> 
> Jim

If you installed via source, the safest way is to run ‘make uninstall’,  
but  
that requires that you have the same version built that’s installed. If  
you’ve updated the source, it won’t be as effective since files have  
changed and been added and removed.

Yes, you can delete stuff yourself from /usr/local, but just make sure  
that  
it’s definitely GNU Radio related, which should be pretty easy since  
it’ll  
all either have gnuradio in the name or be in a directory called  
gnuradio:

/usr/local/include/gnuradio  
/usr/local/lib/libgnuradio\*  
/usr/local/share/gnuradio  
/usr/local/share/doc/gnuradio  
/usr/local/lib/python-2.7/dist-packages/gnuradio\*

That’ll take care of a lot of it. But also look for pmt and volk stuff,  
too.

Tom