what is the problem with doing a 
make uninstall
it works if he didn't do anything else to the directory

On Thursday 21 March 2002 08:23 pm, civileme wrote:
> David wrote:
> >I recently installed a program from a tarball, and did not give an
> > argument to the ./configure cmd that I needed to.  I tried to just re-do
> > the install, but the argument didn't take.  My question.... How do I
> > uninstall an app that was installed from a tarball?
> >
> >tia
> >Dave
> >
> >
> >
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> >
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> Well, dfor that one, a system reinstall would be required, with
> partitions formatted, to assure you rid yourself of it. Alternatively,
> you can try to do an install inside a chroot jail and  diff outputs of
> the directories before and after, then eliminate all files in the
> difference.
>
> Checkinstall is a program that was created to solve that problem, and
> you can search google for it. It puts the tarball's binaries into the
> rpm database so uninstalling is an
>
> rpm -e
>
> Civileme

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