removing a program

ayers · 06-26-2005, 11:14 AM

Hello - I just successfully installed a package via scource code!!! I was very excited. It was glib+-1.2.5.

Unfortunately I already had glib+-1.2.10 and as I try to ./configure gtk+-1.2.5 it tells me to remove the older glib.

So...can anybody please walk me through how to remove a package - thanks - I am a newbie and need it simple - Jim A

acid_kewpie · 06-26-2005, 01:53 PM

uninstall a source package you just installed? just go back to the directory you "make install"ed from and do a "make uninstall".

many newbies fall over when they don't realise that when you install a pacakge from source and it complains that x, y or z isn't installed, in RPM world, it actually means that x-devel, y-devel or z-devel isn't installed and x, y and z is often already there but as an RPM only.

ayers · 06-27-2005, 04:42 AM

thanks!!

but what if I do not have the scource folder anylonger?

JA

acid_kewpie · 06-27-2005, 06:02 AM

no way back really, unless you were using a wrapper installer like checkinstall. you could potentially recompile it, reinstall it over the top and then remove it all again that way... not nice though.

theYinYeti · 06-27-2005, 07:22 AM

The way back is to do the ./configure; make again, but instead of make install, you run make uninstall at the end.

You may find this interesting:
My site > Computing > Linux > Software: install.

Yves.