On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 09:31:05 -0400 "Kliment Andreev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm wondering where is the proper location to put a tarball (containing > source code) that I've downloaded and want to untar and compile. In Linux, > you generally would put it in /usr/src. I know all the FreeBSD documentation > says /usr/local is where all your personalized software > > I put the tarballs in /tmp. Then I use make which actually compiles/installs > software. You can override default install directory. After that, I simply > rm -Rf /tmp/tarball. Thanks Kliment. However, I wonder about uninstalling. If I think there's a possibility I'd want to uninstall later, don't I need to preserve the directory for a "make uninstall"? Or is there some other way to uninstall? regards, Robert _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"