On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 00:17:24 -0400, Marv Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Okay, next question: how do I uninstall software that I've compiled from source? ;)
erk... seems you misunderstood me. when you run rpm --rebuild, it should automagically do the "configure-make-makeinstall" bit for you. the BUILD directory is where that is done. the *real* product of rpm --rebuild lives in the RPMS directory, more specifically, the RPMS/i586 directory. That's the point of SRPMS. To build an RPM from the sources, all nice and dandy and working, so that you can just go rpm -ivh on that RPM file.
Oops-- I thought all that did was generate the makefiles & such, tailored to my system and ready for install.
So could the problem be that I broke what rpm --rebuild did by manually re-installing over top of its work? And if so, should I make the effort to track everything down by tracing back though the makefile (as Stephen suggested), or would another run of rpm --rebuild be likely to 'just work'?
I'm going to grok this stuff some day, I promise. ;)
Thanks, everyone.
Marv
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