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The HEASARC and NuSTAR teams are greatly saddened by the sudden passing of Katja Pottschmidt. Most recently Katja was the lead scientist for the NuSTAR Guest Observer Facility (GOF), a role she had supported for many years. During her science career she worked on many other high energy astrophysics missions and played an integral role in advancing our knowledge of the universe. She was a wonderful colleague and friend and will be keenly missed by all who knew her.
Uninstalling HEASoft
The HEASoft configuration is based on the GNU model and does not have a built-in uninstall mechanism. The installed files, created during the "hmake install" step of the build, are co-located with the source code by default. In order to uninstall HEASoft from a computer, the heasoft directory may simply be removed.
rm -rf /path/to/heasoft-6.35.2
Prefix option
When configuring HEASoft, one of the possible options is "--prefix". This places the installed files, which are created during the "hmake install" step of the build, in a location specified by the user. This may be in a separate location from the source code.
cd /path/to/heasoft-6.35.2/BUILD_DIR
./configure --prefix=/software/heasoft-6.35.2
In this case, the installed directory should also be removed.
rm -rf /path/to/heasoft-6.35.2
rm -rf /software/heasoft-6.35.2