On Sunday, August 20, 2023 at 6:20:01 PM UTC+2 Daniel Staal wrote:

I think that script is fairly old - but as a quick next step, could you
try running it with:

sudo perl ~/Desktop/uninstall-pandoc.pl

If pandoc was installed using root permissions (and the installer will
ask for your password, which means it does), than it will need those
permissions to remove them.

Alternately, just remove those files.

Daniel T. Staal

On 8/20/23 10:32 AM, GFS wrote:
> I installed pandoc (the package) then realised 30mins later that I don't
> need it. I'm not a coder, but have tried uninstalling via the
> pandoc.org Documentation as proposed (uninstall-pandoc.pl). I found that
> I could run the script, if I saved it to my Desktop as a txt file, gave
> it the name: uninstall-pandoc.pl and entered the following command in
> Terminal:
> perl ~/Desktop/uninstall-pandoc.pl
>
> It threw some skipping errors and said that it had been successful.
> *However*.. when I looked in the folder that it had listed for deletion,
> I found that there were Pandoc files in them.
>
> Can anyone please tell me what I need to do, to completely delete the
> Pandoc package?
>
> Here is a screen-grab of the Terminal as used + another showing 2 files
> left in place. I don't know if there are more somewhere else.
>
> Many thanks for any help.
>
> pandoc-grab1.jpeg
>
> pandoc-grab2.jpeg

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