[Request] Need to provide a way to uninstall idapkg

Don’t get me wrong ! I’ve been playing this plugin for a while and it really is an amazing project 😃 👍 However when I was testing the plugin, I encountered some problem and have to find a way to re-install idapkg completely.

To be brief, I have two version of IDA in my computer (Windows 10), and when I was testing the plugin, it kind of screwed up the variable in config.json ( I think it’s idausr_native_bases ), making me unable to open ida ( it kept crashing ). After I installed idapkg, I first open version A’s ida.exe, then open version B’s ida64.exe ( both of them worked perfectly ). And then I found I was unable to open version A’s ida64.exe and version B’s ida.exe ( both of them crashed ). It took me quite a while to find the root cause and have to delete config.json & re-install idapkg to fix the issue.

This make me think that the project should provide a way to uninstall the plugin (and document it in the manual), in case the user have decided not to use the plugin anymore. As far as I understand it has something to do with idapythonrc.py, and it’s located in C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Hex-Rays\IDA Pro\idapythonrc.py (Windows) , which is not an easy place for user to reach/discover. It would be nice if we can use a single command in IDA’s python shell to remove the plugin completely.

[Jinmo]

Done except pkg << "package" since it’s impossible in python to override methods in module object without hacking sys.modules… 😇

• pkg.install now accepts repo=[‘repos’] too
• pkg.remote(spec, repo=None) is added
• pkg.upgrade(spec, repo=None) is added

… in de002e3 ! 😃

[Jinmo]

Currently this can be done with pkg.install(..., upgrade=True), but the shortcut seems good (argument order can be sometimes confusing).

In addition, I’m updating some commands e.g. making repo= argument optional, add remote(), pkg << "package". I’ll close the issue when the refactoring is done!