removing installed applications....

[mikieo]

How do you uninstall applications such as guile ?? infact how do you uninstall anything that you have installed with ./configure & make ???

I'm rather new to this....

thanks in advance....

[l_Kriss]

you can use "checkinstall" or use "make uninstall" if that is in the make file. good luck!

[mikieo]

that's the baby - make uninstall - -seems to work - does that mean iit's removed all traces of the package ? - I'm trying to keep a neat installation

BUT what if I've deleted the directory that I ran the ./configure from ???

thanks for your help

[mikieo]

Actually - whilst it said it was uninstalling and the script did seem to do lots of rm, the guile program is still in the /usr/bin directory !!!

nightmare...

[Dolda2000]

The source package would have installed the binary in /usr/local/bin. Don't you have the guile RPM installed as well?

[mikieo]

I downloaded the tar.gz file - unpacked it in a directory - and according to the readme I just needed to run ./configure & make

Correct me if I'm wrong but RPM is another method to install and handle packages ???

thanks
mike

[Dolda2000]

Yeah, that's right. The thing is that the RPMs that come with the distributions usually install files in /usr/bin, while source packages usually install in /usr/local/bin by default. Therefore, I suspect that you have a guile RPM installed as well. Run "rpm -q guile" to see if that's the case.

[mikieo]

thanks for the sanity check.....

guile not installed - maybe I'm just being paranoid about installing stuff on linux.....and trying to keep it clean...

it's all good fun.