Hello everyone, and welcome to Newbie Question Sunday.
I often install packages from source with ./configure, make, make install. Sometimes I'm not happy with the software for whatever reason and I want to get rid of it. I don't actually know how to do this, till now I've always done make clean or make distclean if available, and then deleted the sources. But I installed something the other day that messed up something else, and uninstalling in this manner did not fix the problem. So how does one really fully undo what is done by ./configure, make, make install? To give an example, to solve a claimed dependency by some other software I went and installed iconv ( http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/ ). Then when I tried to run man from the command line I got:
man man
Reformatting man(1), please wait... iconv: conversion from utf8 unsupported iconv: try 'iconv -l' to get the list of supported encodings So I "uninstalled" iconv as mentioned above, but the problem didn't go away. to my surprise I found that /usr/local/bin/iconv was still there. If I delete it the problem is solved, so that's ok. The question is that I thought make clean would have got rid of it, and now I wonder what other junk is left lying around from other source packages I've installed and "removed". How does one really uninstall? How do you know if everything's been removed? Sorry if this is embarrassingly basic. Cheers. g -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
