Removing a program

From: Jamie Vicary (a_at_b.c)
Date: 02/26/04 

Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:49:53 +0000

I have just installed Mozilla version 1.6, which I put into the default
directory /usr/local/mozilla. However, when I type "mozilla" at the
command line it loads my old version, 1.2.1. How can I stop it doing
this? When I type "mozilla", how does it know where to look for the
program called "mozilla"? If I find the directory holding my old
version of Mozilla, can I just rm -rf * or will I have to do something
more clever to remove it cleanly from my machine?

I know this isn't a Mozilla newsgroup but I'm interested more generally
in how programs are removed from a Linux system. Is there a way to avoid
the Windows mess where programs leave settings and files all over the
place and hence require a special uninstall program to get rid of them?
Do Linux programs restrict their bits and bobs to their own directory?

Thanks all.

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