On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 14:47:15 -0800 Eric Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > How do I unninstall packages that were installed from the source? > > If you're lucky, there's instructions, or an option in the makefile. > > Otherwise, you just have to delete all the files it installed. > > I don't know if source compilations change menu setting, etc. > > eric If you use checkinstall to install from source (it's in contrib, i believe... you'd do ./configure/make then instead of make install you'd do checkinstall) it creates an rpm in /usr/src/RPM/RPMS and it can be installed and removed using rpm. otherwise you have to go a-hunting and delete any files that it installed manually. I've found checkinstall to be a great tool for trying out software. I'd recommend it to anyone building from source. Also to reduce hunting if I'm going about it the regular ./configure make make install route I prefer leaving the prefix as /usr/local and adding /usr/local/bin to my$PATH in ~/.bashrc (and /usr/local/lib/ to ld.so.conf) so finding any bits and pieces will be easier. Jerry. -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\ at V_/_ http://counter.li.org
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