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Re: Uninstall non deb package



On Fri, 11 Oct 2002 the mental interface of 
Setyo Nugroho told:

> Hi all,
> how is it to uninstall a package which is install from a non deb
> package (eg. source in tar.bz2 format)?  
> 
> What about overwriting it with deb package? As an example
> kdevelop. 

If you are using checkinstall instead of make install you can build
a dep-package which is listed in the package-manager apt! So it is
very easy to install non-deb sources with

./configure
make
checkinstall

See apt-cache show checkinstall ;-)

HTH

-- 
  Numeric stability is probably not all that 
  important when you're guessing;-)

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