Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 19:36:33 +0100 From: Jean-Fran�ois Bocquet <tns01@free.fr>@Ouranos.Chaos.fr Message-ID: <20001117193633.A25188@Ouranos> Subject: Re: [SLE] Uninstalling software... Hello Anurag, on Friday, November 17, 2000 at 20:14:52 +0530, you sat in front of your keyboard and wrote:

Hi all,

I installed ldap 2.07 from a tarball on my suSe 6.4 box and then realised that i already had the rpm version installed....

I know how to uninstall rpm packages..but how can i uninstall a software installed from source ? The binaries have been installed all over the system ...!

Regards

Anurag

From inside the source tree do a 'make uninstall'. If that returns something like "make: *** No rule to make target `uninstall'. Stop.", there is no automatic uninstallation procedure provided so you have to manually do it. In the latter case, I don't know any accurate way to uninstall, you have to track down every binary/data file installed on you system to get rid of them.

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Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 20:02:13 +0100 (CET) From: Lenz Grimmer <grimmer@suse.de> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0011172001170.28911-100000@wiles.suse.de> Subject: Re: [SLE] Uninstalling software... Hi, On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Anurag Jalan wrote:

I know how to uninstall rpm packages..but how can i uninstall a software installed from source ? The binaries have been installed all over the system ...!

That is a common problem. Some Makefiles offer a target "uninstall". Try to run "make uninstall". If it does not work, you have to hunt those files manually :( Sorry. LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer/ 90443 Nuernberg, Germany There's no skeletons in my closet.