How do I get rid of my old version of sane-backends?
make uninstall? But where?
It was installed with RH9 automatically. I the packet manager doesn't show sane-backends as a packet that I could remove.
Sane backends bitsare spread all over /usr in loads of sub-directories.
Just wipe them off manually?
Thanks Peter

To uninstall something you compiled from source, go to the directory where you originally compiled it and type 'make uninstall', if you deleted the directory, extract the tarball again and run ./configure, then make uninstall...

But you have probably figured it out by now anyway

Hello,

There is some way to query the database for file to make sure. I don't know how to do it in Redhat but I know it can be done with the RPM based distro (I guess with program rpm), but just to give you a feeling of the power, on Debian it gives:
ibou:~> dpkg -S /bin/ls
coreutils: /bin/ls
ibou:~> dpkg -S users.txt
dpkg: *users.txt* not found.
ibou:~>

So things not installed with the package manager can be found.

Hint for next time:
1) install in its own directorey:
/usr/local/the_apps/{bin,lib,etc}
and do symbolic links in /bin, /usr/bin to the programs.
2) use some tools to package it yourself in rpm - more difficult.

iTux