David Cournapeau wrote: > On 8/12/05, Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>>Yes. I thought that seemed odd. Thanks for verifying. >>>***What's the correct way to un-install them now?*** >> >>go back into the source code directory you built+installed them from. >>type: >> >> make uninstall >> >>you must not have re-run configure with different options since doing >>the last make install. >> >>note that in the case of the ultimate screw up (e.g. with JACK), you can >>still use this method. suppose you mistakenly did this: >> >> (unpack source tarball) >> cd srcdir >> ./configure >> make >> make install >> (remember that you mean to use --prefix=/usr) >> ./configure --prefix=/usr >> make >> make install >> (remember that you shouldn't mix tarballs and packages) >> >>looks bad now - you have two versions of the software, one under /usr, >>one under /usr/local. >> >>its ok, just do this: >> >> cd srcdir >> ./configure >> make uninstall >> ./configure --prefix >> make uninstall >> >>and its all cleaned up. >> >>--p "no sir, never had to do that, no sir, never, no sir" > > > An advice I would add: do not install libraries from source code by > yourself (ie without your package manager knowing it), because it will > cause many problems later, if you do not know exactly what you are > doing. > > If you really want to try some new versions from source, you should > use something like checkinstall, which builds a rpm or a .deb from > your sources. > > http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/ > > The big advantage of this method is that your package manager knows > about what you installed, and where, thus making the uninstall part a > non problem. > > Hi Now thats a nice link! Bob
