uninstall a file .tar.gz

[Philip Moller]

Geoffrey Leach wrote:

> On 09.05 09:48, James Wilkinson wrote:
>
>> Liloulinx wrote:
>> > How to uninstall a package installed with namefile.tar.gz?
>>
>> With difficulty.
>
>
> It's a tad late for this advice, but for next time install with stow 
> http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/software/stow/stow.html Stow (a Perl script) 
> keeps track of all the files installed by installing them in a 
> seperate directory (/usr/local/stow) and then making links in the 
> usual places to the files in /usr/local/stow. From here, uninstalling 
> is straightforward.
>
http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/software/stow/stow.html ain't reely working is 
it ?