Well if you are lucky you can do make uninstall Not all apps support it however. In which case you just have to track down the installed files and delete them. (Thank heavens there is no registry in Linux) For the future the best way IMO to install from tarballs is to get checkinstall. Then you can do : ./configure make checkinstall
Checkinstall will turn the compiled code into an RPM and install the rpm for you. Uninstalling is then easy. Checkinstall is on Cooker. Not sure if it is in 8.2 HTH derek On Thursday 21 March 2002 22:13, David wrote: > I recently installed a program via tarball, and did not give an argument to > the ./configure cmd that I needed to. I tried to just re-do the install, > but the argument didn't take. My question.... How do I uninstall an app > that was installed from a tarball? > > tia > Dave
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