Mike McMullin wrote:
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
Thanks for this. Perhaps it was the way I (didn't) described the situation which made people assume that I had to run make install to actually install this antivir program but this wasn't the case. When the download is untar-red all its compressed files go into a directory where there is a file called "install" which, when clicked on, installs the antivir program. There is no need for make install - unless using check-install can still be applied here. So I guess the bottom line is that I need to go to the various places where antivir placed its bits and delete them by the directories they are stored in. Not a problem :-) . Cheers. -- "I hope you leave here and walk out and say, 'What did he say?'" George W. Bush 27 August 2004