On Thursday 21 March 2002 05:30 pm, you wrote:
> 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


The checkinstall program is on the third disk of 8.2 in the RPMS 4 
group.

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Jonathan Dlouhy
Thursday, March 21, 2002
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