On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 10:38, David wrote: > Second question: Having done the usual configure/make/make-install, what's > the approved way to remove everything that was installed?
There is a package called stow that is great for installing non-packaged applications. You configure your source to install into the Stow directory e.g. /usr/local/stow/application-0.12 Then use stow to install where you want. It makes sym links to the actual application e.g. /usr/bin/app -> /usr/local/stow/application-0.12/bin/app I always install into a dir witht he version number in the name so you can parallel install diff versions in the stow directory. IBM DeveloperWorks have a nice tutorial: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-stow/ Stow will also remove the symlinks for you. Another thing to note is that you can give make the "-n" flag so it will show you what it's going to do befoe it actually does it. This is a good way to check what's going to be clobbered. e.g. $ make -n install HTH -- Simon Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wongy.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
