Re: vmware packaged as .deb

[Reid Priedhorsky <reid@reidster.net>]

On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 14:20:09 +0200, William Ballard wrote:
> 
> And manually doing things like
> rm -r `find /usr/local -name '*vmware* -type d`
> rm `find /usr/local -name '*vm{ware,net,-support}*' -type f`
> rm -r /etc/vmware

You can use stow to solve this problem. Even though vmware appears to
stuff things into /etc even though its install prefix is otherwise,
removing vmware would then be simply:

  rm -r /usr/local/stow/vmware
  rm -r /etc/vmware

stow is quite slick and simple to use. I recommend you take a look.

Reid