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. -- Jonathan Dlouhy Thursday, March 21, 2002 ---------------------------------------------------------------- I didn't pay a lot of attention as I should have in college. --Vice President Dan Quayle ---------------------------------------------------------------- Registered Linux user #264482 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.1
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