# Uninstalling ferret from source

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/uninstalling-ferret-from-source/135678>\
**Category:** Ferret\
**Created:** [April 24, 2008, 5:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/uninstalling-ferret-from-source/135678 "2008-04-24T05:08:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![S\_D](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@S\_D](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/S_D)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 5:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/uninstalling-ferret-from-source/135678/1 "2008-04-24T05:08:33Z")

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I installed ferret from a tarball rather than gem install. Per the  
README I  
installed from the extracted directory via;

$ rake ext  
$ ruby setup.rb config  
$ ruby setup.rb setup  
$ ruby setup.rb install

I’m now trying to uninstall but there are no instructions on how (either  
in  
the README or via “ruby setup.rb --help”).  
How can I do this?

Much Thanks,  
John