On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 10:55:04AM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > That was my point, exactly. I keep my system backed up. This is > the *first* thing a newbie should learn. Before $ make install, > before $ rpm -i, before you name it. > > I also nearly always use --prefix, and install into my home > directory, not to /usr/local. I've got a /home/jmccarty/usr/... tree. > If anything goes bad, I just delete the directories altogether. > There is NO UNINSTALL NEEDED. > > Mike It is enough to compile stuf as regular user and it will force you to use $HOME as prefix.
