[SOLVED]Installed Kazam on desktop. How to move it to system

[simonhoare]

Following the instructions here viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1988, I just installed Kazam desktop recorder, as I prefer it to GTK-recordmydesktop and am not smart enough to use ffmpeg.

It works beautifully.

However, the problem is that in a moment of absent mindedness I did all this in the desktop folder which is clearly not ideal.

What I want to do is move Kazam to somewhere like /opt. I imagine that what will be needed is to uninstall it first and then reinstall it again in the desired location. Trouble is I'm not really sure how the installation worked and therefore don't really understand how to undo it.

FYI, following the instructions posted on this forum (see above), I downloaded the Kazam folder from Launchpad and ran

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sudo python setup.py install

in the terminal as per the instructions in the README file.

Thanks in advance,

[simonhoare]

I found the solution in a Fedora forum. It's not perfect and you'll need to search the file system in addition for files this did not pick up. But it should do most of the work for you.

Go into the kazam folder you ran the installation in and run the following commands:

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python setup.py install --record files.txt
cat files.txt | xargs rm -rfv

From https://ask.fedoraproject.org/question/ ... move-kazam

That should get rid of most of the files. Then just search the file system on "kazam" for the remainder.