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
I have found that Makefiles with an "uninstall" target do not
necessarily actually find every file.
[snip]
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
I have tried "checkinstall" exactly three times, and had exactly
three failures.
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
I was getting segmentation violations and core dumps...
meantime, run it with this syntax: "checkinstall -R --inspect" which will
...when I used the option you mention.
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.
Not my experience.
YMMV
Mike
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