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From: "Rene Engelhard"
Jaakko Tamminen wrote:
You could search fresmeat.net for some kind of package management SW for tar-packages.. I remember seeing those.. They are able to unistall tar packages, but it needs to be installed before You install the tar....
For example, there is "checkinstall".
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Rene --
You should also check to see if the source package was shipped with a spec file. Many packages include a spec file. A spec file is a file that you would use to build an rpm that you can install. Then, uninstalling would not be a problem. The file would most likely be packagename.spec or something like that. If you have one you can build the package with rpm -bb dir/spec. Check the rpm man page for the exact syntax and whatever options you want to use. John