On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 04:48, Rick Moen wrote: > > I'd love to but I don't know how to upgrade and/or uninstall and it's > > not handy at all. > > One way is to just look at the Makefile to see what got installed where, > and just delete the old files manually. This is particularly useful > with packages like network daemons, which don't install many files. > Additionally, the files tend to be pretty easy to spot just looking > through directories, since generally they'd install within /usr/local.
Also, on some (newer?) packages, you can do a "make uninstall". Just make sure you don't erase the source directory. -- Joon Guillen ================================ So computers are tools of the Devil? thought Newt. He had no problem believing it. Computers had to be the tools of _somebody_, and he knew for certain that it definitely wasn't him. from "Good Omens", Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
