uninstall a file .tar.gz

[Philip Moller]

Philip Moller wrote:

> Philip Moller wrote:
>
>> Geoffrey Leach wrote:
>>
>>> On 09.05 09:48, James Wilkinson wrote:
>>>
>>>> Liloulinx wrote:
>>>> > How to uninstall a package installed with namefile.tar.gz?
>>>>
>>>> With difficulty.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> It's a tad late for this advice, but for next time install with stow 
>>> http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/software/stow/stow.html Stow (a Perl 
>>> script) keeps track of all the files installed by installing them in 
>>> a seperate directory (/usr/local/stow) and then making links in the 
>>> usual places to the files in /usr/local/stow. From here, 
>>> uninstalling is straightforward.
>>>
>> http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/software/stow/stow.html ain't reely working 
>> is it ?
>>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/ is much better !  :-)
>
And http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnustow/ is much MUCH better !   :-))