Removing self-compiled software
 

Normally I use the pkgtools to install/remove packages.
But for setting up a small webserver ( only used for local development on my laptop ) i compiled apache,php and mysql.
Now i want to remove these self-compiled packages completely.

I thought about doing it like this:
slocate [filename] > filelist
Then remove the packages listet in 'filelist'
Is this safe, or is there a better way to get rid of the packages ?

( I know, I should use the binarys, but I have to learn.... ;) )

Hi,
Try 'make uninstall' in the directory you origionally compiled in.

Thanks for the quick reply.

The problem is, i don´t have the original directory anymore :D

Let´s say, i took the php-sources, and unpacked them to /server/php-4.3.7
then i went into this directory: cd /server/php-4.3.7
Then i did:

./configure --prefix=/server/php --with-mysql=/server/mysql --with-xml --with-apache=../apache_1.3.31 --enable-track-vars

make

make install


everything went fine, so i deleted the /server/php-4.3.7 directory ( the one with the sources ), so i just have the target-directory /server/php now, with the compiled stuff in it....

So, i can´t do make uninstall because i deleted the source directory ( ? )
How can I get rid of the complete php-installation ?
( it´s not only php, this is just an example )

You'll have to do it manually unfortunatly then. I used to have the same problem until i read somewhere about checkinstall and started using it. checkinstall takes the place of the "make install" command and generates a Slackware package for you and installs it. So you only have to remove the package when you don't want it anymore.

This is Checkinstall's url: http://checkinstall.izto.org/index.php
Also you have some tutorial on how to create package files on http://www.linuxpackages.net (a good source of software for slack btw..)

Thank you :)
I´ll give it a try :)

1. download php-4.3.7 again and untar it
2. ./configure with same configure options like 1st time
3. make uninstall
4. remove this directory

that's it.

M.

or even better ... for the future ...

after running ./configure and make, make slackware package, and install it with installpkg.

you can remove it later with removepkg.

M.

Wouldn't it work to compile and install the exact same packages again, this time using checkinstall instead of "make install", and then remove the package with removepkg?

probably, but I like to make my slackware packages to have them for some future installations.

M.

malo_umoran, checkinstall creates a package from the sources you've compiled and install it's (but also leaves the package created). So you can remove the sources and leave the package for future installations.

I did exactly this and it worked fine :)

I already downloaded checkinstall and will give it a try ( currently I rtfm :p )
And in the next couple of days I will learn how to build Slackware packages ;)


You know, normally i prefer to use slackware-packages, because there is nearly nothing you can´t find for Slackware.
But i have to learn how things are working ( have to know anything and everything for I can sleep at night :lol )
so I do a lot of experiments, like compiling software for the first time and wondering how to get rid of it......

Thank you for the help :cool:

well ... i never used checkinstall, because i like to use slack-internal tools and i have my own shell script calles source2slackpkg, which does everything i need.

but thanx for the info regarding checkinstall.

M.