On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 00:22, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: > Em Sex 04 Out 2002 08:34, Derek Jennings escreveu: > > HI! > > You can find at http://freshmeat.net > > a software called "checkinstall".
checkinstall-1.5.3-1mdk.noarch.rpm requires: libcheckinstall1-1.5.3-1mdk.noarch.rpm both found in the contrib directory of your fav Mandrake mirror. > Once you have it installed, you have to call it *before* installing any > tarball! > It has a routine to "uninstall" any prog "supervised" ! > > I had used it in the past and it was very handy and functional! > > Nowadays, I prefer having a specific directory to install all my tarball, so > it becomes very easy to uninstall them. Besides most tar.gz have a > "uninstall" feature! > > []s Ricardo Castanho > > > 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 > > > > > > Esta mensagem foi verificada pelo E-mail Protegido Terra. > > Scan engine: VirusScan / Atualizado em 02/10/2002 / Versão: 1.3.13 > > Proteja o seu e-mail Terra: http://www.emailprotegido.terra.com.br/ > > -- > > ========================================================== > Linux user # 102240 => Machine # 96125 => Seti@home user > ========================================================== > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Cheers dg
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