Salane wrote: >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 >>> >>> >>> >>>------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>>Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >>>Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >>> >>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 >> > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > make uninstall works ONLY IF the tarball has been set up for it, which applies to about 5% of the tarballs I have examined. YMMV. Check the checkinstall site. They would not spend so much time programming that if it did not have a raison d'etre.
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