RE: uninstall

["Javier Perez" <pepebuho pananet com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-admin redhat com
> [mailto:fedora-list-admin redhat com]On Behalf Of David Eduardo Gómez
> Noguera
> Sent: Lunes, 26 de Enero de 2004 07:21 p.m.
> To: fedora-list redhat com
> Subject: Re: uninstall
>
>
> On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 18:13, Austin Isler wrote:
> > If I installed something from source, how can I go about
> uninstalling it
> > and all the items that came with.
> >
>
> thats why people came up with package managers.
> So in short, it depends on how you installed it and if it has some way
> to easily uninstall it
>
> it is likely that if you did an installation with "make install", you
> can uninstall it with "make uninstall", but it is not 100% sure that
> this process will not delete something that you wouldnt want deleted
> (though it is not very likely).
>
> The other way is to manually delete each installed file, but you should
> have had track of the files that it installed. So thats why installing
> from source is not generally recomended.
>
> If i wasnt sure i would get into trouble from running "make uninstall",
> and i didnt need the space, I would leave it be.
>
You can always use the program Checkinstall.

It replaces the Install step by creating a RPM and then installing from the
RPM file.