Thank you for your great reply Tom! I will do this. Thanks again for your
help. Also the "Do you really...?" does get annoying ;)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Brinkman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2000 9:12 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Uninstall The Install
| 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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