On Friday 07 November 2003 09:52 pm, smart penguin wrote: > i have install several tar packaged in my linux box, ie. samba, but im not > how to uninstall this samba
If you still have the makefile and the source, check if you can do a 'make clean'. You could download the source again if you need to. Not all makefiles have that rule though (hmf), and sometimes you'll have to check if it does the right things. > in fact i can't even use the locate command to > trace where the files resides You mean the actual binaries, libraries, and "installed" files? 'locate' should work. If it's in path, 'whereis' works nicely too. It can "locate the binary, source, and manual page files for a command", so once you find those, you can just remove the respective files/directories. Also, a good bet is to look in /usr, particularly /usr/share and /usr/local. Just do something 'find . -name foo', replacing foo with your expected pattern. If you still can't find it... hmmm... I guess a 'find' on / would ultimately locate the files . ^_^ (By the way, it was a particularly nice experience for me to discover 'find' and read its man pages. Use it with a pattern tool like 'grep' and it's all you'll ever need for searching. Gotta love GNU. ^_^) Enjoy. -- Paolo Vanni M. Ve�egas You know you've been hacking too long when... you count sheep in hex. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
