Hi,

I can use rpm and the 'software installer' to install programs alright. But how do i uninstall programs under linux?

thnx

you're not telling me to delete program files one by one ar u? lol

delelting files individually is a stupid idea, and goes against the whole principle of rpm's. just use the the package manager to uninstall them. it's there if you look. alternatively just use "rpm -e packagename". again, these thigns ar covered easily in a book, and also DOZENS of times on this site. please search little before asking questions.

Man thnx for your help, but can u be a little less mean?

Also, what if i used command 'make' and '/.configure' etc to install and compile the program? How would i uninstall it then since i'm not using any rpm stuff?

thnx

generally speaking the following applies.

say i install a program called opera and now i want to uninstall it. to find out the exact name i would do the following

rpm -qa | grep opera

this will return something like this

opera-6.0-20011129.1

then i simply type
rpm -e opera-6.0-20011129.1

and it will remove opera.

as for source. go into the source directory and usually the coder will have written an uninstall script which can be run by typing

make uninstall

This will remove most of the files. there may be one or two unempty dirs to remove but it works pretty well.

also there are some programs available which monitor you system and when you install a program from source, they take note of exactly which files and dirs were added and can completely remove them.

i forget the names tho, try sourceforge

Thnx

It's pretty rare that the coder doesn't include uninstall script right? Just curious...