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06-26-2003, 12:53 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Stockholm Sweden
Distribution: Gentoo, Slackaware, Flux, KDE
Posts: 20
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Uninstall programs (unmake me?)
Hi everyone.
Just installed slackware and have installed heaps of stuff into it. It's really fun when you get the hold of it...
Just started to wonder when I got to bed last night how to get rid of stuff I don't need anymore?
If have installed all my programs with the tar.gz, configure, make, make install so i dont have the rpm uninstall available.
Is there some procedure I should follow to get rid of all the associated files with an installed program? I have the sourcefiles still on the disk, do I ever need them after an installation?
Yep. Im sure that this is a really basic questions with a simple answer. It's not easy to be a newbie.
Thanks in advance.
/J
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06-26-2003, 12:58 PM
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Moderator
Registered: Jun 2001
Location: UK
Distribution: Gentoo, RHEL, Fedora, Centos
Posts: 43,417
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"make uninstall" from the source directory
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06-26-2003, 01:04 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Stockholm Sweden
Distribution: Gentoo, Slackaware, Flux, KDE
Posts: 20
Original Poster
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Thanks for that fast answer!
So you need to save all the sourcefiles? Isn't that a bit waste of space? Say if I download a app an untar it to 100MB and then install it. If I don't have the sourcefiles left I can't uninstall? Or is there a workaround?
/J
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06-26-2003, 06:24 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2003
Location: Turkey&USA
Distribution: Emacs and linux is its device driver(Slackware,redhat)
Posts: 1,398
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yes there is a work around you can also tell make where to install the file instead of the default location here is a good tutorial
http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Compili..._Software.html
there it is
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06-26-2003, 06:39 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Mar 2003
Location: New Jersey
Distribution: Arch Linux
Posts: 1,445
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Get a program called "checkinstall" from the /extra directory of the Slackware FTP.
You run "checkinstall" instead of the "make install" command, and it installs the program as a Slackware Package. So you can easily remove it from pkgtool or using "removepkg [packagename].tgz"
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06-26-2003, 07:51 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2002
Location: Mosquitoville
Distribution: RH 6.2, Gen2, Knoppix,arch, bodhi, studio, suse, mint
Posts: 3,306
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or cheat and downloaded the same package again,
configure it the same way, then make uninstall after
installing.
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