> Bryan Phinney schreef: >> On Wednesday 15 November 2006 20:54, J. D. Leach wrote: >> >>> I have to agree to the "bugs my ass" comment. Whilst casting about the web >>> for a solution, I ran across a blog entry where a fellow was berating the >>> Linux community for poor support when it comes to removal of source >>> packages. I now see his frustration. >>> >> >> Next time, try to do a make clean. In most cases, doing a make clean will >> remove the installed application files from the system. Assuming that you >> still have the original source where you compiled and installed from handy. >> ____________________________________________________ >> Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? >> Go to http://store.mandriva.com >> Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com >> ____________________________________________________ >> >> > What you always can do is use checkinstall (just use this command > instead of make install) to make an rpm based on the package. This makes > it easy to renove it via rpm -e <package> > > Peter
I like that idea better ... I was going to say that a LOT of source packages also include a 'make uninstall' in them although it's not a standard from what I can tell. -- L -- "The glass is neither half empty nor half full ... it is twice as big as it needs to be" ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
