On 6/15/06, Russ Edwards wrote:

I am sorry I am new to linux and am probably going to ask some pretty basic questions. How can I remove programs?? Is there an uninstall?? Thanks in advance. -- Russ Edwards edwards.russ@gmail.com

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On Thursday 15 June 2006 10:59 am, Russ Edwards wrote:

I am sorry I am new to linux and am probably going to ask some pretty basic questions. How can I remove programs?? Is there an uninstall?? The specific cases are covered by Sunny and Ralph. In the general case: There is no "registry" in Linux, so to get rid of a program, you can just delete it, but... In Linux, most applications are installed using a package manager, such as RPM. By removing the RPM, the package manager will generally remove all the components, and tell you about dependencies.

There are some other good ways to install programs. before we started to use the package managers (RPM and Debian's DPKG). The package managers maintain a database and keep track of revisions so you can do a sane update of your system. Another common way to install programs without using the package manager is with what we call tarballs. These packages are packaged up by the Linux tar (Tape Archiver going back to early Unix) utility. These are normally <name>.tar.gz. The usual way to build these is to unpack the tar archive somewhere, then cd to that directory, execute the configure script included, then run the make utility, then, as root "make install" to move the components to their proper place (normally /usr/local): Executables normally go (by convention) to the bin directory (/usr/local/bin) with libraries in the lib directory (normally /usr/local/bin). Some of these contain an uninstall, but simply removing the executable and libraries is also sufficient. The libraries are normally shared objects (.so) and are similar to the Windows .dlm files. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com