how to uninstall a "tarred" source

b0nd · 08-31-2005, 07:30 AM

hello all,
what i know about uninstalling was to go inside that particular directory and type "make uninstall" as root there.
but its not working here..........i'm trying to uninstall the shorewall.
i installed it through .bz2

Code:

root@bond:/plugins/shorewall-2.4.3# make uninstall
make: `uninstall' is up to date.
root@bond:/plugins/shorewall-2.4.3#

i untarred it inside /plugins........and obviosly a folder is existing inside /etc
How should i do this now???

regards

titopoquito · 08-31-2005, 08:19 AM

In Slackware you could use checkinstall (I think it is able to do rpms, too, but you would have to check if it is able to do this for RedHat). If you use checkinstall to install the files after "./configure && make" it does the "make install" job for you and uses installpkg to install the app. You can uninstall them quite easily after that.
You can find checkinstall in the extra directory on the Slackware CDs or on any mirror: http://slackware.it/en/pb/searchpkg....g=checkinstall

geeman2.0 · 08-31-2005, 08:23 AM

Yeah, what titopoquito said

You need to realize that not every makefile will include an "uninstall" target. In fact, they don't even have to include an "install" target either.
It's only a convention that source tarballs will include a configure script and a "make install" target, but there's nothing stopping developers from ignoring these conventions.

Thus every time you use "make install" you run the risk of not being able to remove the app cleanly.
Unless of course, you use checkinstall

scuzzman · 08-31-2005, 05:13 PM

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Thus every time you use "make install" you run the risk of not being able to remove the app cleanly.

Not true - you could examine the makefile, see what files it creates, and write your own "uninstall" target

geeman2.0 · 09-01-2005, 11:08 AM

Quote:

Not true - you could examine the makefile, see what files it creates, and write your own "uninstall" target

Touche