After upgrading from OSX Mountain Lion to Mavericks I wanted to completely delete a certain app so I was looking for files on my hard drive and found the “bom files” in /private/var/db/receipts
. I ran apropos bom
and it seems that OSX also has a receipts structure simirarly to chef
and using the lsbom
command I can list all the files of an app (listing works with user rights):
% lsbom -slf /private/var/db/receipts/com.github.osxfuse.pkg.Core.bom
...
./Library/Frameworks/OSXFUSE.framework/Versions/...
./Library/Frameworks/OSXFUSE.framework/Versions/Current
./usr/local/include/osxfuse/fuse/fuse.h
...
%
(-f
lists files, -s
lists paths of files, and -l lists symlinks)
If you are uncertain that the uninstaller will remove all the files of an app, before deleting it check it out with lsbom
, save the list and check for the existence of the mentioned files.
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