Awhile ago someone asked whether Linux would be more reliable in uninstalling stuff than Windows. I stuck my foot in it by saying that since uninstalls were programs of some sort (Makefiles etc) they were all subject to bugs. The knowledgeable on this list disagreed strenuously. It was explained (in terms I couldn't understand at the time and probably still can't) that Linux was more reliable by design and that uninstalling items was foolproof, so I was wrong and Linux was unquestionably superior. Well... Apparently the foolproof designers failed to consider the ingenuity of a complete fool... Using Redhat 8 I'd like to get a bigger screen than 80x25. I came across the resizecons utility and through it a reference to svgalib. rpm shows that this is not installed, so I downloaded and installed it. I could never get anything to work; everything kept blowing up looking for libraries. savetextmode, for example, wouldn't load because it couldn't find vgalib.so.1. It turned out there was a file in /usr/local/lib named vgalib.so.1.4.3 (the version number of svgalib) and a link in the same directory named vgalib.so. I created another link by the required name, but I couldn't get the program to find it even when I added /usr/local/lib to PATH and even when I CD'd to that directory and added . to the path. So, I did a make uninstall. Noting that I still had a bunch of man pages I did a make clean and a makewhatis. I've still got (at least some of) the man pages. Doing an apropos svgalib gives tons of stuff, some of it referring to the stuff I just uninstalled (such as fix132x43). On Windows I could have just deleted the folder containing all the svgalib ingredients and lived with a spurious entry in the Add/Remove Programs folder, but on Linux I've got stuff scattered over at least six man directories and that doesn't count any utilities or libraries that might be floating around. So much for that perfect system! And I've still got my midget 80x25 screen! Since I didn't do an apropos svgalib before starting this agony I might be seeing the pre-svgalib results without knowing it; I'll have to check at home. I truly look forward to the flames this is likely to generate as I hope to find out what the heck I did wrong! TIA, Lee _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list