Re: Uninstallation--lots of issues..!!please help

[Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure earthlink net>]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 02:30:06AM -0800, leosgohard wrote:
> 
> i recently downloaded SourceNavigator IDE from Redhat.com
> i dont know how to uninstall it from my system.
> it was .tar.gz file    .Going by the INSTALL instructions , I had
> to create a separate ../snbuild  dir and another ../opt/sourenav  dir
> now i think just deleting these folders wont do..
> since i had done   > configure
> 		   > make
> 		   > make install
> 			
> i guess they configure the settings in quite a lot of other places inthe
>   system ...which i wont get rid of ..by just deleting the ../snbuild
> and ../opt/sourcenav folder.
> 
> since its not an rpm file ...i cannt even do "> rpm -e " which
> BOB Mclure' mentioned in one of the group's last mails.
> 
> please help with this.

Check the makefile to see if it has an "uninstall" target (few do):

  fgrep uninstall: Makefile

If not do a

  make -n install

The "-n" says not to do anything, just show what you would do.  That
will give you a list of things to manually undo.

>  >>>>>>>>>>>
> 2)
> i have my 84% of disk space out of 4 GB of linux(RHL9.0) partition
> filled up.
> i can a see a lot of programs that i can do without ..but i dont know
> how to uninstall them..
> i tried redhat-config-packages on command line..which shows a GUI ..i
> tried de-selecting a couple of installed programs and then tried
> "Update" It fails on some unsatisfied dependencies.
> 
> what should i do about it..!!

If the dependencies are things you can do without, uninstall them all
at one swell foop, not one at a time.

> 3) out of my 20 GB disk space which has C: and D: for windows
> and has a linux partition in the end.
> if i create another ext3 partition using partition magic in windows..
> would that be recognised by RHL 9.0...i mean would that be picked up as
> another /dev/hda'x'    partition by the RHL9.0

Yes.

> if that is posssible .then i can use that partition as my storage
> space...for dumping my installers and use the main partition for
> actually installing the softwares..

Yes.  You will want to create a mount point (a directory) somewhere in
your root (/) partition on which to mount it, and an entry in
/etc/fstab.  Suppose it is /dev/hda7 and you want to mount it on /u.
Then you would (as root, of course)

  mkdir /u

and then edit /etc/fstab to add a line like this:

/dev/hda7          /u               ext3    defaults        1 2

> please help me with all this.
> 
> regards
> 
> robin

Cheers,
-- 
Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
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