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List:       suse-linux-e
Subject:    Re: [SLE] software removal question
From:       Alexandros Karypidis <karypid () inf ! uth ! gr>
Date:       2002-12-16 15:08:55
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Even if you have not kept your initial directory, if you run ./configure with 
the same options as before, you should be able to do a "make uninstall" 
afterwards.

On Monday 16 December 2002 17:00, James Oakley wrote:
> On Monday 16 December 2002 07:50 am, p p wrote:
> > To extend this issue. What if I have installed something from source
> > files by doing:
> >
> > ./configure
> > make
> > and then as root
> > make install.
> >
> >
> > usually installing scripts then install software on some default place
> > (often /usr/local/bin) or somerhing similar.
> >
> > Can these files be just deleted / shredded to uninstall program, or is
> > there some other tasks to be completed also.
>
> If you keep the source directory you installed it with, you can simply do a
> 'make uninstall'.
>
> That generally only works with projects created with the auto* tools, where
> you have a ./configure step.

-- 
To err is human, but to forgive is beyond the scope of the Operating System...

Αλέξανδρος Καρυπίδης
Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλίας
Τμήμα Μηχ/κών Η/Υ, Τηλεπικοινωνιών & Δικτύων

Alexandros Karypidis
University of Thessaly
Computer & Communications Engineering dept.


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