-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2006-11-03 at 15:07 +0100, Daniel Bauer wrote:

I once did a "checkinstall" for an app that I previously installed with "make install", then installed the resulting rpm with Yast and finally de-installed it again with Yast.

I did so, because somebody told me, the rpm-install would overwrite all the files that were installed with "make install", and so de-installing the rpm with Yast would remove everything completely.

I don't know, if this is always true, but here it worked that time ;-)

You are right. There is one instance when it doesn't: when the install cycle tries to be clever and skips the already installed parts. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFS18BtTMYHG2NR9URAjP+AKCFf526Jv+b7AzNoJeXL2z+5eb9qgCfZB7g l/jsFkKSQbE5EhvbBJOp+to= =EAQy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Mike McMullin wrote:

On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 23:29 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:

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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

Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Basil Chupin [11-04-06 21:30]:

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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.

Here is your answer. Read the 'install' script with less or a text editor such as vim, joe, jed, nano, pico... and see where it put files.

Which is exactly what I have done :-) . All I now need to do is to go to the mantioned directories. Cheers. -- "I hope you leave here and walk out and say, 'What did he say?'" George W. Bush 27 August 2004

Carlos E. R. wrote:

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The Sunday 2006-11-05 at 13:27 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:

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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.

Of course it can:

checkinstall install

or any other command used for installing, even a long untar command. I told you so on friday ;-)

Didn't see your response - possibly didn't arrive here, don't know. But thanks for the above. I've made a note of it and will use this method in the future. (Maybe if I did this now all it would do is overwrite what is there already and then I can use rpm -e to uninstall. I'll try this on the testbed computer first.) Cheers. -- "I hope you leave here and walk out and say, 'What did he say?'" George W. Bush 27 August 2004

Carlos E. R. wrote:

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The Sunday 2006-11-05 at 14:17 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:

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Didn't see your response - possibly didn't arrive here, don't know.

http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2006-Nov/0708.html

Maybe your antispam filtering is too tight ;-)

No, the filter does not touch anything to do with this mail list, nor anyone who is in my address book. There is something happening with the mail from this list because in another thread here my post and a response to it took some 14 hours to get back to me. Possibly has to do with which path the mail follows from the suse server, don't know. [pruned] Cheers. -- "I hope you leave here and walk out and say, 'What did he say?'" George W. Bush 27 August 2004

Carlos E. R. wrote:

The Sunday 2006-11-05 at 14:17 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:

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Didn't see your response - possibly didn't arrive here, don't know.

http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2006-Nov/0708.html

Maybe your antispam filtering is too tight ;-)

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But thanks for the above. I've made a note of it and will use this method in the future. (Maybe if I did this now all it would do is overwrite what is there already and then I can use rpm -e to uninstall. I'll try this on the testbed computer first.)

Yes, it should work, as others have said.

Interestingly, your message to Basil was the first I received on this thread. I noticed Basil's last message was marked with an " Error - No valid armored OpenPGP data block found ", and I know I haven't used a PGP signature yet. Could this have something to do with skipped messages? -- ED --

On Saturday 04 November 2006 22:32, Carlos E. R. wrote:

Yes, it should work, as others have said.

-- Cheers, Carlos E. R.

Yes Carlos, I'm still having a mail problem. I retrieved your reply from the archives. It hasn't arrived here yet. --------------------------------------------------- The Tuesday 2006-11-07 at 12:05 -0500, Ed McCanless wrote:

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Yes, it should work, as others have said.

Interestingly, your message to Basil was the first I received on this thread.

Then you have a problem with email, or something in the path is filtering or removing email.

I noticed Basil's last message was marked with an " Error - No valid armored OpenPGP data block found ", and I know I haven't used a PGP signature yet. Could this have something to do with skipped messages?

No, it is because in his answers Basil does not remove the remains from my signature, and that is enough to trick Thunderbird into expecting a signature somewhere. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. ----------------------------------------------------- If it's a filter, it seems to work only on certain days of the week. I receive very little mail on Sat. and Sun. and sometimes Mon. I'm pretty sure the problem is not with the list, because I sent mail to myself from another account, and that sent on the weekend never arrived Hope the way I've done this isn't too confusing,but I wanted to say thanks for the feedback. -- -- ED -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org