-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mike McCarty wrote: > 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 I always try to build a package the 'real way' but I have. Not recently, years ago actually, used checkinstall when I was in a hurry. Building your own packages is not that difficult. Here are some very clear, simple directions straight from Fedora's Wiki. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/BuildingPackagesGuide - -- David -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) iD8DBQFFy5ZpAO0wNI1X4QERAmJ6AKCjkwGGhK54LSnh58FCmyMLpZ/zNgCgwGxe JwTVPqkhEQhepXBu0ffMKCw= =ysbq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
