Re: how do I uninstall a .tar.gz package?

On 27 Apr 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.misc, in article
<1146198893.886735.70660@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, danish wrote:

Where are you running the commands? All that you show assume something in
the current working directory.

I place a tar.gz file in the /usr/local directory and then untar it
there as well as install it there...because default installation
directory mentioned in most of the tar.gz files is /usr/local....

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/

The FHS document has a limited scope:

* Local placement of local files is a local issue, so FHS does not attempt
to usurp system administrators.

but a little further down, it describes what should be in /usr/local/ and
a common concept is that there should only be directories in /usr/local/
and one of those is

src Local source code

My own experience/training is that the tarball gets dropped there, and
after running 'tar -zxf foo-1.2.3.tar.gz' there should be a directory
named /usr/local/src/foo or /usr/local/src/foo-1.2.3 with the source
files and what-not. cd into that directory, and do your thing in there.

Also, there is no builder account on my system.....

Not surprising - it's not a "standard" account. This would be an account
the system administrator creates locally. Likewise the user and group
numbers depend on how the account was created. (Up-thread, I show

]builder:x:3258:192:Software Builder:/usr/local/src:/bin/bash

and there is nothing magic about UID 3258 or GID 192 other than they are
not in use by others.]

Is that unsafe..?

No. The name that you give the account used to build software is a local
decision. What is unsafe is building software as root, or even as a regular
user without taking precautions. I know of a person who only builds and
tests software on a "throw-away" stand-alone system - no network, no users,
nothing important on the system. If things work, the binaries and documentation
gets transferred to the production systems. If things don't work, then the
only harm is the wasted time - the system can be wiped and reinstalled as
needed.

Old guy
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