On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 23:29 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
Removing an application which was installed using RPM is easy. But how does one remove a tar-red application installed using the 'install' command?
For example, Carlos E.R. talked about the antivir program which checks for viruses so, like a good soldier, I went and got it and installed it to try it out. Now I want to remove it.
To remove it, is it a matter of looking inside the archive and compiling a list of all the directories where it installed itself and then deleting those entries manually, or is there a faster method?
Have a look for any un-install scripts it may have created. You could of course, re-do the make up to the point of of make install, but using check-install to create the rpm, then install the RPM, which will overwrite the previously installed files, and then un-install the RPM, hence removing the files. HTH and _I_ didn't tell you this ok? ;) Mike