Re: OK, how do I UNinstall programs?

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From: David Damerell
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 00:00

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James Lee  <leekk@cs.utexas.edu> wrote:
>NOw, of course, it is not so good to mix these kind of things.
>I would sure love to have a tar2rpm, tar2deb, etc. type of utility
>around that repackages tarballs into the various package managements
>systems. It is of course possible that one does build, but I don't know
>how easy or difficult that is until I have read the whole manual.

Debian GNU/Linux has the 'alien' utility as a normal part of the
distribution. It may run someplace else; you could check
ftp.debian.org for the source package and see if it will compile,
or run Debian...

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From: damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk (David Damerell)
Subject: Re: OK, how do I  UNinstall programs?
Date: 1999/04/25
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