I would also like to share this article by Beranger regarding yumex (CentOS centric, adapt if using another distro). This really made my life a lot easier.
http://beranger.org/index.php?fullarticle=1483 Yumex is cool. It's a GUI of Yum. You can add repositories to it, then use it to search for packages to install from the repositories. Easier than installing Windoze software! ----- Original Message ---- From: Jun Salen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, December 8, 2006 8:48:48 AM Subject: Re: [plug] Advise on RPM vs. Compiling source Wow, this will be very usefull tool. I will try to use this today to uninstalled software installed from the source and will use the RPM instead to avoid headaches. Thanks Gideon and to all other for their advise. ----------------------------------------- Compile it again but this time, instead of using "make install", use the utility called checkinstall (http://freshmeat.net/projects/checkinstall). This will generate an RPM, and thus will allow you to use the RPM command to uninstall your compiled application. -- Gideon N. Guillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] junji linux registered user #253162 Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
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