Well, I think it's not fair to say that a package manager is a solution to the actual problem - he says:
"How do i remove a program installed from source" - i.e. ALREADY installed. My only answers to this are "make uninstall" (in the origional source directory) or the program "make_uninstall". On 8/17/05, Chris Devers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Timothy Johnson wrote: > > > This is not a beginners question. This is a free script question. Try > > looking for a free script list. > > To be fair, this *is* a real problem. > > The thing is, like many real problems, it has already been solved. > > Repeatedly. > > The tool that Harold is looking for is a package manager. > > The package manager to use depends on the platform he's using. > > For example, on Debian Linux, the APT toolkit is absolutely superb for > this sort of thing, and it has tools for building & installing Perl > modules as Apt-managed packages (look up dh-make-perl for starters). > > If you're stuck with Red Hat or another Linux, then you might have to > deal with RPM, which may or may not have equivalent to dh-make-perl; I'm > not sure, as I haven't used Red Hat in a few years. > > Likewise, there are similar tools for Windows, Solaris, OSX, Irix, etc. > > The point is simple: yes, cleaning up manual installs can be annoying, > so the fix is to avoid manual installs if you don't want to deal with > that problem. Find out what package manager[s] are popular on the OS > platform you're using, and figure out how to use it to install the Perl > modules you need. Chances are, most of the popular modules will already > have packages available, and if not, there may be HOWTOs explaining how > to set up your own packages for other modules. > > This wheel has already been reinvented lots of times. :-) > > > > -- > Chris Devers > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> > > > -- Dave All us base are belong to you. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
