Webcam driver

[David Boles]

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Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 08 February 2007 12:12, Keith Powell wrote:
>> I'm investigating my aMSN video problems.
>>
>> At the moment, I have the MXhaard driver installed which I downloaded
>> and installed as a tarball.
> 
> Unless there is a 'make uninstall' option in the Makefile, you will have 
> to run it down, file by file and nuke it yourself.  About the only way I 
> know of is to do another make install with your terminal set for enough 
> history to save it all, and then scroll back up the history and rm -f 
> anything it installed.  Even that may not be bulletproof if it overwrote 
> some file needed by something else.
> 
> This is where the utility 'checkinstall' is worth its weight in bottled 
> beer or sliced bread, experienced folks can use it to make an rpm that 
> can then be installed with the usual rpm command, or uninstalled with the 
> usual rpm -e command.  But it currently has a bit of a bug and requires 
> you edit out of its include list, a rather large group of system files it 
> wants to include.  A fix for that is expected in about a week.  In the 
> meantime, run it with this syntax: "checkinstall -R --inspect" which will 
> give you a chance to clean up its act.
> 
> Humm, that in fact, IF you do the --inspect editing (that's vi when you're 
> doing that) correctly, you may be able to generate an rpm, install it, 
> and then remove it.  But that's not a particularly well tested at my 
> place function either, so I just toss it out as an idea to be explored.
> 


I have see several people on this list with this 'how do I remove the
.tarball' problem. May I suggest that the better way is to build your own
rpm package. Or, the really easy way which maintainers / developers hate, is
to use checkinstall to make an rpm package.  ;-)

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  David
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