Oops.... How do I uninstall?

Travis86 · 01-04-2003, 12:04 PM

I just installed wu-ftp in /root, which is probably not the best place for it. How do I uninstall it? It came in a .tar.gz file, but I was also wondering about uninstalling rpm stuff, too. A Linux Google search didn't turn up anything helpful.

Thanks.

acid_kewpie · 01-04-2003, 12:12 PM

maybe you should try picking your search terms a little more carefully.

in the source directory run "make uninstall" but i wouldn't be too sure you acutally have installed it there, did you specify a --prefix=/root or such like to the ./configure script for wu-ftp?

please search this site for more info on software management

bulliver · 01-04-2003, 01:30 PM

When you install from source the install location is determined by the configure script that is run when you ./configure. As acid_kewpie said, unless you added a --prefix=/root it probably installed in the default location (/usr/local). It is perfectly fine to remove the source tree from /root after installing (rm -rf directory_name).

Uninstalling RPM's is super easy: just "rpm -e packagename"