On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 14:51:30 +0800 Myk D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would like > to completely remove both installations and make a fresh installation. > The thing is, I have no idea whatsoever on how to remove them cleanly. One approach you might think about is learning about how to make packages. Ubuntu uses debian packages doesn't it (see http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT8047723203.html for a brief tutorial on how to make debian packages) ? You can then remove or cleanly replace all components everything very easily. It can take a bit more effort than ./configure, make, make install, though there are tools, e.g. checkinstall, that make it about the same. You can get the debian package for checkinstall from the debian unstable branch: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/checkinstall.html However, I can't find where or if checkinstall is now being maintained. There are problems with the way it deals with procedure links under some newer kernels that I had to patch to get it to run under Suse 9.1; same may be true for Ubuntu distributions, but looks like it works (see http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-2356.html). Dave Looney -- Statistics: A discipline where mean is normal and deviation standard.
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