-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 08 February 2007 12:12, Keith Powell wrote: >> I'm investigating my aMSN video problems. >> >> At the moment, I have the MXhaard driver installed which I downloaded >> and installed as a tarball. > > Unless there is a 'make uninstall' option in the Makefile, you will have > to run it down, file by file and nuke it yourself. About the only way I > know of is to do another make install with your terminal set for enough > history to save it all, and then scroll back up the history and rm -f > anything it installed. Even that may not be bulletproof if it overwrote > some file needed by something else. > > This is where the utility 'checkinstall' is worth its weight in bottled > beer or sliced bread, experienced folks can use it to make an rpm that > can then be installed with the usual rpm command, or uninstalled with the > usual rpm -e command. But it currently has a bit of a bug and requires > you edit out of its include list, a rather large group of system files it > wants to include. A fix for that is expected in about a week. In the > meantime, run it with this syntax: "checkinstall -R --inspect" which will > give you a chance to clean up its act. > > Humm, that in fact, IF you do the --inspect editing (that's vi when you're > doing that) correctly, you may be able to generate an rpm, install it, > and then remove it. But that's not a particularly well tested at my > place function either, so I just toss it out as an idea to be explored. > I have see several people on this list with this 'how do I remove the .tarball' problem. May I suggest that the better way is to build your own rpm package. Or, the really easy way which maintainers / developers hate, is to use checkinstall to make an rpm package. ;-) - -- David -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) iD8DBQFFy4c4AO0wNI1X4QERApxnAJ9vMwOuktQV0gsKFnyGGWFBNGtzEwCgmtjm zOxUYaBspduBUHsIO4UAGgI= =dJ0F -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
