RE: Couldnot unistall apps, installed by "make"

From: Ryan Golhar (golharam_at_umdnj.edu)
Date: 10/08/04

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Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 10:14:10 -0400

    That's why you should use RPMs. That's exactly why I do.

    The only way you can truly uninstall something is to do its "make
    install" and see what it copies and installs...

    With RPM, you can do rpm -qf (or -qpf) to determine what package a file
    belongs to...

    Ryan

    -----Original Message-----
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    [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Yin Ming
    Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 2:23 AM
    To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
    Subject: Couldnot unistall apps, installed by "make"

    Hi, fellows

    "Make" an application is always exciting for me, because it is born by
    my box, rather than those compiled RPMs. But the damage comes out soon.

    I cannot uninstall them entirely. Many of them don't write an UNINSTALL
    or something else. And, differing from Win, unix applications like to cp
    their files everywhere, I have to cd every directory and shout "Hey, who
    belong to XXX app? I'll rm you with -f"

    Anyway to control the files and settings of those "make"ed apps? 

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