Couldnot unistall apps, installed by "make"

keith morse kgmorse at mpcu.com
Fri Oct 8 17:39:17 UTC 2004


Yin Ming wrote:
> 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?
> 

One option is to use checkinstall to manage tarball based packages, or 
get proficient in writing rpm spec files and build your own rpms.




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