Unistalling tarballs

senthilkumaran · 10-18-2003, 07:31 AM

Hi

I am using slackware8.0 distro. I use to install the packages using
tarballs. How do I unistall the packages? Just deleting the installation folder will be a perfect uninstallation? How do I make perfect uninstall. Is there any utility to install tarballs and uninstall as well?

thanks,

arunshivanandan · 10-18-2003, 07:55 AM

With most of the tar balls containing sourcecode,there will be an uninstall option.so just go to the untarred directory(from which you installed it) and run 'make uninstall'
--arun

arunshivanandan · 10-18-2003, 07:57 AM

also,deleting those directories may not make a complate uninstall since they may have edited many other files as well.
edit-checkout http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/index.php .this is a program with which you can unistall almost all the installed programs.(read the note at the end of this page(link) about slackware 8.)
--arun

Mara · 10-18-2003, 05:36 PM

Moved to the Slackware forum.