RE: how to purge a src package?
>
> (Wait! That's not my question. Read on.)
>
> I then did a manual "make install" in order to try out the
> binaries. This leaves Debian thinking the xawtv package is not
> installed, where in fact it is brokenly half-installed.
>
> My question is, how can I purge it?
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you can try 'make uninstall' it may work. Otherwise you need to remove each
file it installed by hand. This is why we all moved to packages over make
install.
> (If your answer is of the form "serves you right for doing stuff by
> hand", feel free to explain how I would purge the source assuming I
> *hadn't* done a "make install".)
>
> The other thing is, this command appears to have dumped the xawtv
> source in /usr/xawtv-3.72, as opposed to something reasonable like,
> say, /usr/src/xawtv-3.72. It didn't even tell me it was putting the
> source there. Is any of this customizable?
>
apt-get source downloads the source into the directory you are in at that
moment. So if you were in /usr as root it sure enough placed them in /usr.
Shame on you for logging in as root (-:
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