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How about nothing involving find or rm at all? Our build system should =
be able to handle this.

On 9 Mar 2010, at 16:18, Paul Davis wrote:

> Maybe a command more like this?
>=20
> find /usr/local/lib/ -name "couchdb" | xargs -n 1 rm -rf
>=20
> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Noah Slater <nslater@tumbolia.org> =
wrote:
>> It looks wrong. If people want to uninstall CouchDB, they should use =
the "uninstall" target with make. Instructions asking them to DELETE =
everything are very irresponsible. Unless the user thinks hard about =
that that command is about to do, they will loose all the data in their =
databases.
>>=20
>> On 9 Mar 2010, at 15:54, Jan Lehnardt wrote:
>>=20
>>> Hi Noah,
>>>=20
>>> On 9 Mar 2010, at 03:17, Apache Wiki wrote:
>>>=20
>>>> - =3D=3D invalid UTF-8 JSON =3D=3D
>>>> -
>>>> - When upgrading from old versions of CouchDB, it is best to really =
get rid of everything old.  If you get strange errors and all but the =
simplest actions appear to be broken, and especially if you are seeing =
{"error":"bad_request","reason":"invalid UTF-8 JSON"} type of errors in =
Futon, then you should try something like the following:
>>>> -
>>>> - {{{
>>>> - find /usr/local -name \*couch* | xargs rm -rf
>>>> - make && sudo make install
>>>> - }}}
>>>> -
>>>> - This was discussed on 13 Dec 2009 on the users mailing list, and =
the resolution is discussed
>>>> - =
[[http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-user/200912.mbox/%3c200=
912130717.39605.sh@widetrail.dk%3e|here]] and
>>>> - =
[[http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-user/200912.mbox/%3c200=
91214091547.GA7543@uk.tiscali.com%3e|here]]
>>>> -
>>>> -
>>>=20
>>> what's wrong with this information? I still see people running into =
the issue.
>>>=20
>>> Cheers
>>> Jan
>>> --
>>>=20
>>=20
>>=20