On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> Thank you for your help. If a author does not include this should I just rm
> it or what? Again thanks for your help!
well now I need to admit to not being much more'n sophmore newbie
myself ;) I don't very often run into needin to uninstall, 'cause
I can't resist upgrading (new install) everytime Mandrake does ;)
I have used the 'make uninstall' option when it was included by
the author. The few times I've removed a program I've used 'locate
<program name>' to find all the relative files, and then delete
them that way (slow and tedious), but many times you can just zap a
whole dir. I use KDE and Kfm, it's a lot easier than a bunch of
'rm's, specially since 'rm' is aliased to "Do you really... ? ;-)
the locate command is a good friend. I prefer it much more than
the KDE 'find' utility, which sometimes couldn't find it's way
out'a a paper bag. In a normal install, and the system is left on
overnite, the locate DB is updated at 4am. But you can find recent,
not yet added to the DB files quickly by updating the DB ('locate
-u' as root). Takes a minute, but it's still quicker/better than
'find'. 'Least ways for me it is.
--
~~ Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Brinkman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2000 2:18 PM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Uninstall The Install
>
>
> | On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> | > I was wondering if I have to uninstall something I installed and how
> would I
> | > go about doing this? I usually install using the commands gzip -cd
> | > source.tgz | tar xvf - then cd source/ ./configure then make then make
> | > install all as root. Thanks!
> |
> | try 'make uninstall'. It should prob'ly work as most authors
> | are including this in their source lately.
> | --
> | ~~ Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> |
> |
>
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