kinda newbie question

[Damien Elmes]

Sam Couter <sam at topic.com.au> writes:

> mn_x at e-apollo.lv <mn_x at e-apollo.lv> wrote:
> > yes, it gives me: make: *** No rule to make target `uninstall'.  Stop.
> 
> So now you have to do it the Windows way: Search through your filesystem
> in the areas that the software may have installed itself (probably
> /usr/local) and delete each file that the package installed manually.
> 
> If you still have the source package configured (and its Makefiles are
> set up decently), you could probably do something like "make
> prefix=/tmp/foo" and see what files go into /tmp/foo. Look for those
> same files in /usr/local.
> 
> Using a package management tool like dpkg or apt on Debian or rpm on
> RedHat will solve all of these problems for you.

There's also programs which can wrap a 'make install' process and record where
everything's going. But package management is much more sane. That's what
/usr/local was invented for in the first place (source code installations which
were easy to prune)

-- 
Damien Elmes
resolve at repose.cx