Deinstalling questions....

[Matthew Seaman]

On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 06:04:28PM -0500, Xpression wrote:

> Is there a way to uninstall a package installed via make &&
> make install ??? I mean, when I compile a package it is
> installed on /usr/local and through a tree, then if I want
> to uninstall it I have to delete the files one per one...

You mean something you've installed outside the ports/pkg system?

I'm afraid the answer is that the only thing you can do is
labouriously identify each individual file and manually delete them.

There's a couple of tricks you can use to make the job easier -- if
you can positively identify some of the files you can extract the
timestamp and then hunt for files with a similar timestamp.

If you've still got the sources around, you can try installing using a
different prefix pointing at an empty directory -- eg. /tmp/something
-- supposing that the compile system permits that (all autoconf based
source packages do).  Then compare what gets installed in there with
what's in your /usr/local

ports are your friend... trust the ports...

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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