"Usha S." proclaimed:
> I have installed SSH in my machine. Now i want to uninstall it. I
> installed it using a tar file and followed the instruction (ie
> configure,make,make install). But as i want to uninstall it now, how do i
> do it?
This is one of the classical problems that sys admins face. When you
'make install' a software, it should, by default, be installed under
/usr/local/ The binaries get installed under /usr/local/bin, the man
pages under /usr/local/man, the libraries under /usr/local/lib etc. It
is a big pain in the ass to go into each of these directories and rm the
files. Furthermore, these directories frequently have way too many
files stored in them and this makes it difficult to isolate only those
files that were installed as part of the software that you installed (in
this case - ssh).
This is one of the reasons package management through rpm/debs was
started.
There is no easy solution for you at this point. However, you can help
yourself in the future by using a software like 'stow'
(http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnustow/). With stow, you'd install the
software under /usr/local/stow/software_name by running './configure
--prefix=/usr/local/stow/software_name). Once installed, you'd run stow
and it would create symbolic links from /usr/local/bin to
/usr/local/stow/software_name/bin etc.
Thaths
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