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07-09-2002, 08:01 PM
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Registered: May 2002
Location: Australia, Sydney, St.Clair
Distribution: Rh 7.3
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unistalling
how do i unistall a compiled program....not an rpm
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07-09-2002, 08:23 PM
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Registered: Jun 2002
Location: Bailey, CO
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Look in Makefile and see what the install paths are.
run make again in source dir. see what bins/libs/directory are created. use "find" to locate bins/libs/direcrtory
and remove them.
Note, also check README and Makefile to make sure
there isn't any uninstall insructions.
Note 2, that why I alway do a:
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/app-name
that way everything us under that directory
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07-09-2002, 08:56 PM
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ohhhh, so it doesnt matter (like windoze  ) if the files are in one folder and you delete them without unistalling them, but what if there is information in configuration files etc. etc.
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07-09-2002, 09:05 PM
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In addition to what pickledbeans said, some programs, and only a very few, come with a "make uninstall" option. That's nice.
For the most part most linux programs are not going to change any configuration files, or really, they would just add more, not modify anything, that would make it messy.
Offhand, what are you trying to get rid of?
Cheers,
Finegan
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07-09-2002, 09:56 PM
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uhhh the motorla sm56 linux driver...it added something to modules.conf....
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07-09-2002, 09:58 PM
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What you want to delete the drive or just take it out of action ?
do
lsmod
if its lested
rmmod sm56
Then delete entries from modules.conf
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07-10-2002, 12:14 AM
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Ismod or rmmod don work???....i had this problem with the 'make' command, i didn install the package.....i removed the entries from the modules.conf
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07-10-2002, 12:41 AM
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Quote:
Originally posted by GT I.N.C
Ismod or rmmod don work???....i had this problem with the 'make' command, i didn install the package.....i removed the entries from the modules.conf
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Something I've noticed is the moudles directory is empty
with 2.4.x as apposed to 2.2.x? But every thing still works?
How you suppose to know what modules you're have to work with if you cann't see them all?
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07-10-2002, 12:51 AM
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i don really get that, but all i need to know is how to unistall the sm56 files, or can i just manually delete them?
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07-10-2002, 11:10 AM
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You can manually delete them, if you want. You might want to check the makefile and see where "make install" put things, but really in the case of a driver, you're looking at less than 1 Mb of wasted disk space and as long as you edit that line out of /etc/modules.conf your machine isn't even going to burp with that extra code just taking up space.
Cheers,
Finegan
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