[HLUG] how do I uninstall

[Julian Robbins]

alabaster wrote:

>Hi Benji,
>
>I can't find any "make uninstall" options in the archive file I copied,
>and I have looked in all the likely files there for notes on uninstall,
>so I may have to write this one off. 
>
>Am I right in thinking doing "make install" installs already compiled
>stuff, as that is what I used?
>
>I shall look into checkinstall so I can avoid filling my system with
>non-working rubbish in the future.
>
>Thanks for the pointers.
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Without wishing to start a flame war re the benefits of each Linux
Distro, thsi is exactly why the distros that use deb packages work so
well, ie Debian, Ubuntu, Xandros, etc. Libraries are always installed
cleanly and can remove similarly too.

Also, as there are about 16000 packages in Ubuntu's repositories, there
is usually a package for software that you require.

Julian

>Regards
>
>Gordon
>
>On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 06:39 +0000, Benjamin Weber wrote:
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>>Hi Gordon,
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>>Difficulty of uninstalling and dependency breakage as you have described is one reason ...
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>>Some programs provide a "make uninstall" target that you can run in the source directory ...
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>>As for removing the program you have already installed, if you still have the source code ...
>>
>>Benji
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