Re: uninstall program

[Jay Daniels <jay infoave net>]

On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Edward Marczak wrote:

> On 7/9/02 6:07 PM, "Norm Yates" nyates mma edu pressed the keys forming the
> message:
> 
> > Okay I know how to uninstall an rpm package - 'rpm -q <name>'
> > 
> > How do I uninstall a program that is installed with - 'make install'   ?
> > 
> > 'make uninstall' - doesn't work.
> 
> Go to freshmeat.net and look at checkinstall.  It'll let you compile a
> tarball yourself, and then install it as an rpm.  You can then, of course,
> just rpm -e to get rid of it.  Good stuff.
> 


Ed, how does this checkinstall compare to other programs that 
automatically create rpm packages?  I am more interested in a program that 
will create rpms for distribution.

I noticed a lot of source packages like courier imap allow you to build 
the rpm and source rpm directly from the source tar package. The is 
probably the best way to handle this but not many developers use this 
method.


jay

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