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Re: How to uninstall?



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On Wednesday 03 November 2004 08:08 pm, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote:
> I installed a program using a .tar.gz file. Can I remove this program and
> how?
>
I read everyone else's post but didn't find the replies convincing.
There are a couple of non-free programs which aren't packaged for Debian that 
I use using the source.

My answer -- Use stow.
apt-get install stow

once done you'll have a directory named /usr/local/stow under which 
all .tar.gz based programs need be installed.

Eg:
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/stow/foo-0.0.1

and once installed, `cd /usr/local/stow; stow foo-0.0.1` will do the job of 
creating symlinks to /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/lib etc etc etc.   :-)

I hope that is what you'll want.

rrs
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