I have to agree to the "bugs my ass" comment. Whilst casting about the web for
a solution, I ran across a blog entry where a fellow was berating the Linux
community for poor support when it comes to removal of source packages. I now
see his frustration. Still, even with Microsoft having a good
install/uninstall routine for their apps., Iremain a fan of Linux. It is just
an area where the developers could do a little better.
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 08:47 pm, JoeHill wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 20:23:30 -0500
>
> J. D. Leach got an infinite number of monkeys to type out:
> > Sorry, no go. Get the "No rule to make the target 'Uninstall'. Stop"
> >
> > Any other ideas?
>
> Ooooooohh...I hate when they do that >:-(
>
> I'll assume there is an INSTALL file and you've read it. If there's nothing
> in there...
>
> You can look in the Makefile for something resembling 'uninstall', or do a
> 'locate' (after doing an 'updatedb' as root) and see where it installed the
> various files, then delete them by hand. Not always fun, depending on the
> complexity of the install, sometimes it's just a binary in /usr/local/bin,
> sometimes it's putting stuff in /usr/local/lib that you may have to hunt
> down.
>
> Or get in touch with the packager and ask them :-\
>
> Not providing an uninstall routine in the makefile, that really bugs my
> ass.
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J. D. Leach
Columbus, Indiana USA
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