On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 07:07, Marv Boyes wrote: > Hello, all. I have so far had absolutely rotten luck getting much of > anything I've compiled from source to work on my Mandrake 9.2 machine. > Luckily, I've either a) decided I can live without the latest > bleeding-edge versions of my favorite apps; or b) been able to find > Mdk-ready RPMs on rpm.pbone.net and/or RPMFind for most of the stuff I > want to use. It really bugs me that I can't use 90% of what I've tried > to install from source, as compiling and installing software the way _I_ > want it was one of the big draws of Linux in the first place; but I've > read everything I can find on the subject and still haven't the vaguest > notion of what I might be doing wrong. > > Anyway, my question (there IS a question) is this-- is there a > convenient way to uninstall programs I've installed, or (more often) > tried to install, from source? There's probably a lot of crap strewn all > over my hard drive, and I'd like to be able to clean some of it up. I'd > also like to know for any future failures to run things I've compiled > from source. > > Any guidance would be greatly appreciated; thanks very much in advance. > > > Marv
Depending on how the programmer/author setup the initial makefile, you can try doing a "make uninstall" - or go through the makefile itself and see where it's put programs/libs and the likes...a bit of a pain to do it by hand, but I like doing that anyways just to make sure... stephen kuhn - proprietor ============================== illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com mobile: 0410.728.389 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 07:22:24 up 1:22, 2 users, load average: 0.20, 0.25, 0.23 ------------------------------------------------------------------ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents ------------------------------------------------------------------ This email is virus-free because we don't use Microsoft products Were these parsnips CORRECTLY MARINATED in TACO SAUCE?
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