How do you completely remove sqlite3?

Question

I tried doing this

gem uninstall sqlite3-ruby
gem uninstall sqlite3

Then I performed find ~/ | grep mkmf.log

And it removed any sqlite3 directory I had on the system.

But it still is in my bin. Anyone know a more professional way of removing sqlite3?

I say this because I've been dealing with this error for five days now :

sqlite3-ruby only supports sqlite3 versions 3.6.16+, please upgrade!
*** extconf.rb failed ***

I have completely gutted my server three times now and reinstalled every single application and sqlite3 included on to it again and again. But it still thinks its an old header.

Thanks!

Answer 1

The Ruby gem is just a wrapper around the "real" SQLite which is a library plus a command line tool. So removing the gem doesn't remove the library/cli. You need to remove that with whatever packaging tool your operating system provides (you didn't tell us which OS you're using), like yast or apt or pkg...