pa3gcu wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 September 2002 19:20, Paul Kraus wrote:
>
>>Obviously software is always better installed from source. This creates
>>binaries that are system specific. However this represents the problem
>>of software removal. I notice some software by default will install into
>>/usr/local then dump everything under one directory (windows style-the
>>source install for samba is a good example). You can uses switches to
>>put these files in the correct bin lib etc folders. So if you follow the
>>standard(usings the systems bin/etc/sbin/man/var folders) how can you
>>effectively remove a piece of software without having a list of all the
>>files and paths of every app you installed. This is the only drawback to
>>Linux I have found. Of course RPMs/dpms are away around this but lets
>>omit pre-packaged software.
>>
>
> If ones installes programs from *.tar.gz archives after compiling one can
> simply delete the source dir and its contents, you are then left with the
> executable of course, when you want to "uninstall" a program reinstall the
> source and simply type make uninstall, in some instancies it may be nessasary
> to exectute a file called ./configure or even ./autogen.sh those files create
> a Makefile, once the Makefile is created one can then do;
> make uninstall .
>
> Mind you some older archives did not have that approch, but i guess in the
> modern day kernels they would not compile anyway, so we can safely say;
>
> cd /to/source/dir
> make uninstall
Note that there are some programs distributed as tarballs that may not
have the `uninstall' rule in their Makefile. This makes them harder to
remove but not impossible (<- one word that doesn't deserve a place in
your vocabulary)...
Meet "checkinstall". This nifty program keeps a tab of all installed
programs on your system, making it easier for you to manage them
(Installing/Unistalling), by keeping a record of all write-actions
performed when you do a `make install' or similar. Get it at
http://proyectos.glo.mx/checkinstall/
To install the package, do:
tar xvzf checkinstall-X.Y.Z.tg
cd checkinstall-X.Y.Z
make
su (root passwd here)
make install
checkinstall
exit
To install a new package you would normally have to do
./configure
make
su (root passwd here)
make install
exit
With checkinstall installed, you have to replace the `make install' step
with `checkinstall' so that it (checkinstall) knows what has been
installed andthus makes it easier to remove. So, you would have
something like:
./configure
make
su
checkinstall
exit
Hope that helps ;)
Arthur
>
>>Paul Kraus
>>Network Administrator
>>PEL Supply Company
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>>
>
>
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