On Friday 15 February 2002 10:12, you wrote: > Hi, > Is it possible to somehow uninstall something I compiled and installed > from a tarball? > > TIA > Roman For next time:
I think that the best way to handle the installation of tarballs is through checkinstall. Use it to create an rpm based on the tarball, then you can uninstall the program with rpm if you want to. No need to mess around with 'make uninstall' anymore, which may or may not work. I highly recommend this program! Narfi. ps. The project's home page is http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/ From the checkinstall page: A lot of people has asked me how can they remove from their boxes a program they compiled and installed from source. Some times -very few- the program's author adds an uninstall rule to their Makefile, but that's not usually the case. This is my primary reason to write CheckInstall. After you ./configure; make your program, CheckInstall will run make install (or whatever you tell it to run) and keep track of every file modified by this installation, using the excelent installwatch utility written by Pancrazio 'Ezio' de Mauro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). When make install is done, CheckInstall will create a Slackware, RPM or Debian compatible package and install it with Slackware's installpkg, "rpm -i" or Debian's "dpkg -i" as appropriate, so you can view it's contents with pkgtool ("rpm -ql" for RPM users or "dpkg -l" for Debian) or remove it with removepkg ("rpm -e"|"dpkg -r"). Aditionally, this script will leave you a copy of the installed package in the source directory so you can install it wherever you want, which is my second motivation: I don't have to compile the same software again and again every time I need to install it on another box :-).
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