How to uninstall a program

avidwriter · 03-23-2005, 10:03 PM

Hi, say I install a program via .gpz and doing my own compile, how would i later uninstall it? should i make it into an rpm first wiht some convertor?

thanks..

Hangdog42 · 03-23-2005, 10:08 PM

If the people writing the program were kind, then there might be a make unistall in the Makefile. However that would mean you have to keep the source code around to uninstall. A much better idea is to use checkinstall, which is a program that replaces the make install step of compiling. It allows you to create an RPM and then install, and uninstall, with the usual RPM tools.