Couldnot unistall apps, installed by "make"

[Ryan Golhar]

That's why you should use RPMs.  That's exactly why I do.

The only way you can truly uninstall something is to do its "make
install" and see what it copies and installs...

With RPM, you can do rpm -qf (or -qpf) to determine what package a file
belongs to...

Ryan

-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Yin Ming
Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 2:23 AM
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Couldnot unistall apps, installed by "make"


Hi, fellows

"Make" an application is always exciting for me, because it is born by
my box, rather than those compiled RPMs. But the damage comes out soon.

I cannot uninstall them entirely. Many of them don't write an UNINSTALL
or something else. And, differing from Win, unix applications like to cp
their files everywhere, I have to cd every directory and shout "Hey, who
belong to XXX app? I'll rm you with -f" 

Anyway to control the files and settings of those "make"ed apps?

-- 
   <yinming at mdc-ds.com>

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