buggy uninstall script - Google Earth

[JamButty]

Anyone familiar with uninstall scripts?

I installed Google Earth from the Google site. That version is no good (others here have reported and I can confirm), so I want to uninstall it before trying the version from the medibuntu repository. Not possible to uninstall from Software Center or Synaptic and the uninstall script in its home dir is not working. It seems to be testing for various operating systems and branching to the appropriate uninstall program for the returned value, but I am not sure it is testing for linux at all (tests for "OpenUNIX", but that does not seem successful).
Script is /opt/google-earth/uninstall
with

sudo ./uninstall

or

sudo bash uninstall

it goes right to the final section (with none of the conditional test echo texts appearing) with it's own "I didn't find diddly here dude" message:
--Could not find a usable uninstall program. Aborting.--

So do I have other uninstall options or any suggestions on editing the script to correct it? script below.

#! /bin/sh
#### UNINSTALL SCRIPT - Generated by SetupDB 1.6 #####
DetectARCH()
{
        status=1
        case `uname -m` in
           amd64 | x86_64)  echo "amd64"
                  status=0;;
           i?86 | i86*)  echo "x86"
                  status=0;;
           90*/*)
           echo "hppa"
           status=0;;
        *)
        case `uname -s` in
            IRIX*)
            echo "mips"
            status=0;;
           AIX*)
           echo "ppc"
           status=0;;
            *)
            arch=`uname -p 2>/dev/null || uname -m`
                       if test "$arch" = powerpc; then
                          echo "ppc"
                       else
                          echo $arch
                       fi
            status=0;;
        esac
        esac
        return $status
}

DetectOS()
{
  os=`uname -s`
  if test "$os" = OpenUNIX; then
     echo SCO_SV
  else
     echo $os
  fi
  return 0
}

FindBinary()
{
  arch=$1
  if which loki-uninstall 2> /dev/null > /dev/null || type -p loki-uninstall 2> /dev/null > /dev/null; then
    if loki-uninstall -v > /dev/null 2> /dev/null; then
        echo `exec 2>&-; which loki-uninstall || type loki-uninstall`
    else
        echo "$HOME/.loki/installed/bin/`DetectOS`/$arch/uninstall"
    fi
  else
    echo "$HOME/.loki/installed/bin/`DetectOS`/$arch/uninstall"
  fi
}

arch=`DetectARCH`
UNINSTALL=`FindBinary $arch`

# Special case: if amd64 and binary is missing, try to run x86 build...
if test ! -x "$UNINSTALL" ; then
  if test "$arch" = amd64 ; then
    UNINSTALL=`FindBinary x86`
  fi
fi

if test ! -x "$UNINSTALL" ; then
    echo Could not find a usable uninstall program. Aborting.
    exit 1
fi

exec "$UNINSTALL" -L google-earth "/opt/google-earth/.manifest/google-earth.xml" "$1"

[jtarin]

Post the link where you got it.

[JamButty]

http://www.google.com/earth/index.html

[jtarin]

The uninstall script is in the same folder as Google Earth? Have you tried just double-clicking it?

[jtarin]

Try these methods.

[JamButty]

I think option 1 worked! medibuntu here I come. Thanks.

[JamButty]

Just for the record that option was

sudo  rm -rf /opt/google-earth && sudo rm  /usr/share/mime/application/vnd.google-earth.*  /usr/share/mimelnk/application/vnd.google-earth.*  /usr/share/applnk/Google-googleearth.desktop  /usr/share/mime/packages/googleearth-mimetypes.xml  /usr/share/gnome/apps/Google-googleearth.desktop  /usr/share/applications/Google-googleearth.desktop  /usr/local/bin/googleearth

[jtarin]

Great work!!

[JamButty]

Question tho-- all these are just file delete commands. Does this mean that, in Linux, deinstallation is simply deleting the main and program menu entry files associated? No correlate of the 6.5 million registry entries for every program and other hidden minefields like in *******? Sounds too good to be true.

[jtarin]

Question tho-- all these are just file delete commands. Does this mean that, in Linux, deinstallation is simply deleting the main and program menu entry files associated? No correlate of the 6.5 million registry entries for every program and other hidden minefields like in *******? Sounds too good to be true.

Simple answer...yes. When I run acros something like this I always do a "locate"...it will find 99% of the things you needto remove. However...there is sometimes a hidden folder in your home folder that holds the configs. Not always. No there is no registry. You might run the locate command as I indicated previously and see if there is some left-over.Windows always leaves files behind after an uninstall.