[Xastir] linux question

Gerry Creager N5JXS gerry.creager at tamu.edu
Thu Feb 6 22:14:03 EST 2003


We don't have a good RPM mechanism, or an apt mechanism, so, no, there's 
not a "good" uninstall mechainsm.  That said, the directions below are a 
real good approach to ininstalling xastir.

/usr/local/bin/xastir and /usr/local/xastir/* are the core and key files.

gerry

brenda wrote:
> my question was meant to be more general...
> i can always do "locate xastir"
> and delete them all.
> but, what about other software????
> i'm getting the impression that there isn't an uninstall standard for
> software installed from source.
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 11:10, Brian Heaton wrote:
> 
>>Be very careful! If you must, the following should do the trick.
>>
>>------------------------------
>>as root:
>>
>>	rm /usr/local/bin/xastir
>>	rm -rf /usr/local/xastir
>>------------------------------
>>NOTE: Any time you issue a line that starts with "rm -rf" as root you
>>should type the line and then stop and read it to be sure its really
>>what you want to do. 
>>
>>			THX/BDHh
>>
>>
>>
>>On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 16:57, Neil Morris wrote:
>>
>>>Just delete it. None of that Windows uninstall nonsense here :-)
>>>
>>>Neil
>>>G0TVJ
>>>
>>>
>>>>here's a linux question that applies to xastir too
>>>>
>>>>if you install something using the ./configure;make install method....
>>>>how do you uninstall???
>>>>
>>>>(not that i'd ever want to uninstall xastr!)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>-- 
>>>>brenda <brenda at wallace.net.nz>
>>>




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