Removing linux application

Hi, i have some queries on removing programs. As you see, in windows, u need to uninstall programs not needed. But in linux, i cannot find any uninstaller or program to uninstall it. Is that a requirement and where is the program to load?

Thanks.

If you use rpm to install, you can do a

rpm -ev <package name>

if you are installing by source, one of the files (INSTALL?) should have a list of files and paths where it's itstalled them, and you can rm all those files.

if you do not know the packega name do a rpm -qa >rpmlist that will save list of rpm on you system to rpmlist file

in slackware.
u can use checkinstall

./configure
./make
./checkinstall

checkinstall does 'make install' and make a slack pkg
so that u can do 'removepkg pkgname' when u want to remove it.

checkinstall doc talks about redhat/debian also
u might want to check it out. (google: checkinstall)

gl

I am using mandrake linux 8.2. I have tried the 2 options given but it just said:
error: package opera-6.12-20030305.1-shared-qt.i386.rpm is not installed.

In the rpmlist, i can only see opera-6.12-20030305.3. So what should i do cos i cannot clean the old opera 6.1. I am thinking of installing the static version. The mozilla always give me the timeout error.

Pardon me if i am wrong. It seems that if i used mozilla and kmail and knode at the same time, one of them will not be given the time slice to process. So eventually it issues the timeout error.
If i used windows, i don't have that problem. How can i overcome that?

you install via that package name, NOT the file name, so

rpm -ev opera-6.12-20030305.1-shared-qt

should do it, probably also just opera-6.12 would be fine too.

Thanks for the solution, it really work. So which means in future, i just need to issue this command to uninstall a program? And also for those .rpm files, normally after installation, how do i get them to run? It does not created an icon like windoze, so which folder should i look into?

And also reference to my another thread, how do u actually retrieve files from the cache memory. Just like in windoze, u actually can view the files in the temporary\content folder. How abt linux, which folder actually stored those cache data?

so you mean..... if you installed from tar.... you just delete the directory and it is already uninstalled?

No, what i did was i use the rpm command cos it ws from a .rpm source file. As for tar, u might want to consider doublefailure's method.

The program will be integrated with the system - try typing its name to run it, ie "opera", "python", "foobar".

The system for installation of icons/menu entries is still being written, most RPMs will not add menu entries yet.