On Friday 04 Oct 2002 12:12 pm, Hesham Khonji wrote: > How does one uninstall tarball packages? Does it require any maintenance of > the actuall tarball? THanks > > Hesham
Good question If you kept the directories you used to install the application then you can *sometimes* use make uninstall to remove all the files. The bad news is that make uninstall is often not supported by many applications, and you probably deleted your installation directory anyway :-( You are then reduced to hunting around the file structure deleting directories and files. The good news is that there is no 'registry' like under Windows for you to screw up. So you will get the idea by now that installing application in RPM form is preferable, because then you can do a simple urpme application_name to uninstall it. If your favourite application is not available in RPM format, you can create an RPM using an app called 'checkinstall'. Just type checkinstall in place of the 'make install' command and it will compile the application convert it to an RPM, install the RPM and then save the RPM in /usr/src/RPM for you. HTH derek
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