Re: OK, how do I UNinstall programs?

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From: Gareth Owen
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 00:00

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Linuxuser@windows98.com (Linux User) writes:

> How do I UNINSTALL those programs!!! There are INSTALL-instructions,
> but no uninstall. (I mainly use those tar.gz files instead of those
> RPMs)

Well, sadly, you usually have to find the programs/libraries/directores
that have been installed and manually delete them.  This can be
problematic in the case of libraries, since other stuff may be dependent
on them.  It's not difficult to write a shell script which uses ldd to
check for dependent apps in your PATH.  Mail me if you want mine...

-- 
Gareth Owen
http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~gowen/lisp/
"Ed is the standard text editor."

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Date: 1999/03/29
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