software removal question
What is the easiest way to remove software after installing? I have installed vncserver and viewer and would like to remove it. Thank you. Mark -- Hey dad, I smell clowns. --Sydney Lucier Black holes are where God divided by zero. Silly God! --Dale L. Houston The factory of the future will have only two employees: a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. --Warren Bennis As I was going up the stair, I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. I really wish he'd go away. --Hughes Mearns A hill is just a straightaway with a vertical dimension. --Andy Grosser ----------------- Mark Lucier Public Schools of CLK 57070 Mine Street Calumet, MI 49913 Phn 906-337-0311 Ext 1110 Fax 906-337-3848 mlucier@clk.k12.mi.us
You should run YaST, select the "Install/Remove software" tool, search fro "vnc" and then select it for de-installation. On Monday 16 December 2002 16:12, Mark Lucier wrote:
What is the easiest way to remove software after installing? I have installed vncserver and viewer and would like to remove it. Thank you.
Mark
-- To err is human, but to forgive is beyond the scope of the Operating System... Αλέξανδρος Καρυπίδης Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλίας Τμήμα Μηχ/κών Η/Υ, Τηλεπικοινωνιών & Δικτύων Alexandros Karypidis University of Thessaly Computer & Communications Engineering dept.
Alexandros Karypidis wrote:
You should run YaST, select the "Install/Remove software" tool, search fro "vnc" and then select it for de-installation.
On Monday 16 December 2002 16:12, Mark Lucier wrote:
What is the easiest way to remove software after installing? I have installed vncserver and viewer and would like to remove it. Thank you.
Mark
To extend this issue. What if I have installed something from source files by doing: ./configure make and then as root make install. usually installing scripts then install software on some default place (often /usr/local/bin) or somerhing similar. Can these files be just deleted / shredded to uninstall program, or is there some other tasks to be completed also. P_tr
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, p p wrote:
To extend this issue. What if I have installed something from source files by doing:
./configure make and then as root make install.
usually installing scripts then install software on some default place (often /usr/local/bin) or somerhing similar.
Can these files be just deleted / shredded to uninstall program, or is there some other tasks to be completed also.
Yes, if you manually delete all files related to the program, it is uninstalled. However, sometimes the installation routines also modify or create configuration files, which have to be removed or edited back into their former state, or other stuff might break because they still expect the program t be there. Many source packages have a make uninstall for doing just this. Else you should look through the Makefile to see what make install really does to make sure that you undo all of it. Regards Ole
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 16 December 2002 07:50 am, p p wrote:
To extend this issue. What if I have installed something from source files by doing:
./configure make and then as root make install.
usually installing scripts then install software on some default place (often /usr/local/bin) or somerhing similar.
Can these files be just deleted / shredded to uninstall program, or is there some other tasks to be completed also.
If you keep the source directory you installed it with, you can simply do a 'make uninstall'. That generally only works with projects created with the auto* tools, where you have a ./configure step. - -- James Oakley Engineering - SolutionInc Ltd. joakley@solutioninc.com http://www.solutioninc.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9/ep7+FOexA3koIgRAjieAJ4sheR8yzEZqoKSt5H0orM9GGTC3QCfSeG6 qIpCRSsvcpCGOiGNmQ9qRn8= =7AIf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Even if you have not kept your initial directory, if you run ./configure with the same options as before, you should be able to do a "make uninstall" afterwards. On Monday 16 December 2002 17:00, James Oakley wrote:
On Monday 16 December 2002 07:50 am, p p wrote:
To extend this issue. What if I have installed something from source files by doing:
./configure make and then as root make install.
usually installing scripts then install software on some default place (often /usr/local/bin) or somerhing similar.
Can these files be just deleted / shredded to uninstall program, or is there some other tasks to be completed also.
If you keep the source directory you installed it with, you can simply do a 'make uninstall'.
That generally only works with projects created with the auto* tools, where you have a ./configure step.
-- To err is human, but to forgive is beyond the scope of the Operating System... Αλέξανδρος Καρυπίδης Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλίας Τμήμα Μηχ/κών Η/Υ, Τηλεπικοινωνιών & Δικτύων Alexandros Karypidis University of Thessaly Computer & Communications Engineering dept.
On Monday 16 December 2002 12.50, p p wrote:
To extend this issue. What if I have installed something from source files by doing:
./configure make and then as root make install.
Aside from the method James mentioned, if you replace "make install" with "checkinstall" you'll get an rpm that you can then remove with rpm -e, or your favourite package manager
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