On Wednesday 18 September 2002 19:20, Paul Kraus wrote: > Obviously software is always better installed from source. This creates > binaries that are system specific. However this represents the problem > of software removal. I notice some software by default will install into > /usr/local then dump everything under one directory (windows style-the > source install for samba is a good example). You can uses switches to > put these files in the correct bin lib etc folders. So if you follow the > standard(usings the systems bin/etc/sbin/man/var folders) how can you > effectively remove a piece of software without having a list of all the > files and paths of every app you installed. This is the only drawback to > Linux I have found. Of course RPMs/dpms are away around this but lets > omit pre-packaged software.
If ones installes programs from *.tar.gz archives after compiling one can simply delete the source dir and its contents, you are then left with the executable of course, when you want to "uninstall" a program reinstall the source and simply type make uninstall, in some instancies it may be nessasary to exectute a file called ./configure or even ./autogen.sh those files create a Makefile, once the Makefile is created one can then do; make uninstall . Mind you some older archives did not have that approch, but i guess in the modern day kernels they would not compile anyway, so we can safely say; cd /to/source/dir make uninstall > > Paul Kraus > Network Administrator > PEL Supply Company > 216.267.5775 Voice > 216-267-6176 Fax > www.pelsupply.com -- Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
