removing a program
 

Hello - I just successfully installed a package via scource code!!! I was very excited. It was glib+-1.2.5.

Unfortunately I already had glib+-1.2.10 and as I try to ./configure gtk+-1.2.5 it tells me to remove the older glib.

So...can anybody please walk me through how to remove a package - thanks - I am a newbie and need it simple - Jim A

uninstall a source package you just installed? just go back to the directory you "make install"ed from and do a "make uninstall".

many newbies fall over when they don't realise that when you install a pacakge from source and it complains that x, y or z isn't installed, in RPM world, it actually means that x-devel, y-devel or z-devel isn't installed and x, y and z is often already there but as an RPM only.

thanks!!

but what if I do not have the scource folder anylonger?

JA

no way back really, unless you were using a wrapper installer like checkinstall. you could potentially recompile it, reinstall it over the top and then remove it all again that way... not nice though.

The way back is to do the ./configure; make again, but instead of make install, you run make uninstall at the end.

You may find this interesting:
My site > Computing > Linux > Software: install.

Yves.