On Fri November 14 2008, Daniel Burrows wrote: > When you install a package from a .tar.gz file, you're installing > software by hand and there isn't a general procedure -- you do it by > unpacking the archive and following the instructions it contains. For > that reason, there is no general procedure for uninstalling it -- you > have to reverse whatever you did in the installation steps, and I don't > know what you did. > > Of course, none of this would be an issue if you had just installed > the Debian package. ;-)
you can also install & run checkinstall. then you run: make checkinstall and it installs it as a debian package, so apt/aptitude is aware of it.. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
