-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 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?
Good question... Yes, I do it manually. If they have an install program, they may have an uninstall one too. If it was a "make install" there usually is also a "make uninstall", but not always. Perhaps there is a method somebody can come up of listing the contents of the tgz and creating an script to erase or move those same files from the tree. But remember that if there is an install method, you can always create an rpm out of it, with "checkinstall install_program" or whatever command it needs to be used to install or unzip it. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFS0MMtTMYHG2NR9URAmnxAJ0V5t5TJNa3TOjboEF0JlAICLg2RgCfaDVl 9OuMfxEX4uXTrbIyZjpEehc= =kFV/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----