uninstall

[Prakash Rao]

> On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 16:13:43 -0800
> Austin Isler <a_c_isler at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> > If I installed something from source, how can I go about uninstalling
> > it and all the items that came with.
>
> Hello, Austin :)
> If you still have the directory lying around that you ran "make install"
> from, just "cd" into that directory (as root) and run "make uninstall"
> If you do not have the above mentioned directory anymore, untar the
> source code (just like you did to install it in the first place), "cd"
> into the directory that is created by untarring the source code, and, do
> the following:
> 1. Run "./configure" - make sure that you use the same path that you
> used when you originally installed the program.
> 2. Run "make"
> 3. "su" into root, and run "make uninstall"
>
> Unless I am mistaken, if you don't even have the original source code
> lying around, you will need to get a hold of another copy of the exact
> version that you installed, and run the following steps.
>
> This Might leave a few directories behind, but if I'm not mistaken,
> every time that I've looked into any directories that remain after
> running "make uninstall", they are always empty.
> To summarize, just follow the same steps that you followed to install
> from the source code to begin with, but run "make uninstall" instead of
> "make install"
> I need to move on now to get ready for work, but I'll follow up with you
> no later than Wednesday with how you can find any empty directories that
> are left behind after following the steps that I described above.
>
> Worst case scenario, if there is a better way to do what I described
> above, I'm sure that someone on this list will let us know :)
>
> I hope this helps :)
> Steven P. Ulrick
>

You might want to look at a program called CheckInstall.

It basically creates an RPM during the install process and stores it in the
RPM database. You can easily uninstall the package any time later with a
rpm -e.   Another advantage is that you can always reinstall the application
with the created RPM rather than recompiling the source.

You can download it from http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/ or
apt-get the prebuilt RPM from DAG repository.

HTH,
Prakash