Hi, --- On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 2:16 AM, Yugal<[email protected]> wrote: | But if the package was lets say not installed by any of these medium.. | lets say it came from a tar ball , then what ? | And also... | | It might happen that the package entry gets deleted from the rpm | database ? (RPM has a database for all this..) \--
No, source tarball installation is done manually by the user, and is not tracked by the RPM database. If you install a software from the sources - typically, $ ./configure; make; sudo make install you will need to retain this source directory, because if you have to uninstall the same, you will need to do: $ sudo make uninstall and then remove the sources directory. I usually put the manually installed sources in ~/installs directory, so I know I should cleanly remove them. --- | I tried to remove the a basic unnecessary app found in the menu in | fedora.. it went away with nautilus. why ? \-- Because if you remove the dependency, the other applications will not work without it. SK -- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Do you have another question? Click here - http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug/post l...@iitd community mailing list -- http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
