Apparently packages that were originally tar-gunzip files do not show up in the Package Manager. What is the best way to uninstall these programs cleanly? geno
Hi Many times You can go into the installation directory where You have the sources, and do "make unistall". If this does not work, then I know there are people who knows how to do it. 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.... Jaska. Viestissä Tiistai 13. Marraskuuta 2001 15:15, geno kirjoitti:
Apparently packages that were originally tar-gunzip files do not show up in the Package Manager. What is the best way to uninstall these programs cleanly?
geno
* Jaakko Tamminen
Hi
Many times You can go into the installation directory where You have the sources, and do "make unistall".
If this does not work, then I know there are people who knows how to do it.
A possibility would be to do a 'make -n install' which only prints what command will be executed. Then you can see what was installed where. -- Mads Martin Joergensen, http://mmj.dk "Why make things difficult, when it is possible to make them cryptic and totally illogic, with just a little bit more effort." -- A. P. J.
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". After installing it (RPM is on the SuSE-CDs) you do not type in "make install" anymore; you type in "checkinstall". This programs executes "make install" and determines which files are installed. It builds an RPM package, which can later easily be removed with rpm -e as every RPM package... Rene -- Omnis enim res, quae quando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. [Aurelius Augustinus, 4. Jhd} (http://www.fsfeurope.org/order/announce.de.html) anfordern öffentl. GnuPG-Key: Mail an gnupgkey@rene-engelhard.de
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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
On November 13, 2001 08:15 am, geno wrote:
Apparently packages that were originally tar-gunzip files do not show up in the Package Manager. What is the best way to uninstall these programs cleanly?
Depends on the package. Depends on how you installed it. Depends.... If you put it in /usr/local then you might be able to just rm the stuff. If you installed it from a src tarball and you edited it to point to something like /usr/local/xxx then you might just be able to tell make to clean up after itself. Did I say it depends? Nick
On 13 Nov 2001, geno wrote:
Apparently packages that were originally tar-gunzip files do not show up in the Package Manager. What is the best way to uninstall these programs cleanly?
As another poster was quick to point out: it depends. Hope that the author of the program included a 'make uninstall', buy many don't. Perhaps this is what you are looking for: http://freshmeat.net/projects/checkinstall/ Run 'checkinstall' instead of 'make install' and it will check what files were created and / or changes and create the RPM on the fly. -- Karol Pietrzak PGP KeyID: 3A1446A0
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