On Saturday 12 June 2004 05:07 pm, Marv Boyes wrote:
> Any guidance would be greatly appreciated; thanks very much in advance.
Apart from the "make uninstall" that Stephen suggested, you might also try a
"make clean" which also will uninstall binaries installed from a script.
--
Bryan Phinney
- Original Message -
From: "Marv Boyes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2004 5:07 PM
Subject: [newbie] Uninstalling programs compiled from source
> Hello, all. I have so far had absolutely rotten luck getting much of
>
On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 00:07, Marv Boyes wrote:
>
> 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
Dnia sob 12. czerwca 2004 23:07, Marv Boyes napisał:
> 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
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 a
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.pbo
Patrick Dyer wrote:
>
> How do I uninstall programs which were installed from
> files of type *.tar.gzip or *.tar.Z? Can someone help
> me please.
> patrick
>
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Usually, unless there is an uninstall script included with
the program, you have to locate the program and manually
delete it. For example if you have installed "foobar" then
# locate foobar
/usr/bin/foobar
/usr/doc/foobar
... and the like. Then
# rm /usr/bin/foobar
# rm -r /usr/doc/foobar (th
