Re: Re: Total nOOb question: uninstalling software (Ben Russo)

[Alex RENE <alexr starhub net sg>]

Thanks Ben!! That little script idea will certainly come very handy!!


> Message: 1
> Subject: Re: Total nOOb question: uninstalling software
> From: Ben Russo <ben umialumni com>
> To: redhat-list redhat com
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> Date: 12 Dec 2002 14:30:31 -0500
> Reply-To: redhat-list redhat com
> 
> On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 11:27, Alex RENE wrote:
> > Hi all... I know, it's REALLY a nOOb type of question but... How do
> you
> > uninstall stuff you did not install by RPMs like from tar.gz and the
> > likes ... I have WAY too many browsers installed on my machine, and
> I d
> > like to get rid of a few other things too...
> > 
> > -- 
> > Alex RENE <alexr starhub net sg>
> 
> Another thing you can do, 
> it takes a long time, but it does work.
> 
> write a script that does the following
> as root, I am not testing these commands,
> so you might want to think about the gist of 
> it and then rewrite it yourself.
> 
> mkdir /tmp/FILES
> find / -type f > /tmp/FILES/filelist
> cd /tmp/FILES
> split --lines=50 filelist
> rm filelist
> for FILEBATCH in `find . -type f`
> do
>   for AFILE in `cat $FILEBATCH`
>         do
>         rpm -qf $AFILE | grep -v "is not owned by any package" >>
> /tmp/FILES/not-owned-list.txt
>         done
> done
> 
> Then when you are done you will have a list of the files that
> are not owned by any RPMS.
> 
> -Ben.
> 
> 
> 
-- 
Alex RENE <alexr starhub net sg>