Lance & Carrie Borden wrote:
>
> What do you do if you ever want to uninstall a program that you installed from a
> .tar file?
Keep your installed .tar files in a directory for them
(I use /usr/local/installed) and use tar to get a list
of all the files in that .tar file, so that you can
"locate file/in/the/tarball" and delete them by hand.
If you don't have the space to actually keep a copy of
every installed .tar, use tar to get the list, and
save it to a file, appending each list to the file
as you install more stuff.
Sometimes the .tar file builder will have an uninstall
script, but that's rare, and might not work if you
installed without the install script.
On a side note, I am unable to get tar to even
show me a list of a tar archive, so this might
not work properly. It doesn't give errors, just
stops.
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