[Ilugc] Managing source packages
- From: lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Chandrashekar Babu)
- Date: Wed Sep 12 11:04:36 2007
Hi,
Karthikeyan M wrote:
i m using fc7 and i know how to install source file
it goes like this
./configure
make
make install
then u can work with tha particular software,
can you please tell me, how to unistall a software...!
Is there any possiblity or not?
You can install a tool called 'checkinstall' for this
purpose. Download and install the checkinstall
package from the following URL:
http://www.asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/
Once installed, you can build the source by issuing
the following sequence of commands:
./configure
make
checkinstall
Note the 'checkinstall' command instead of 'make install'.
This command does a 'make install' on its own and also
updates your RPM package database with the files being
copied onto your system directories, with a newly
generated package name corresponding to the sources.
At a later point of time, when you wish to uninstall
the built-from-source package, just run the
'rpm -e packagename' command as usual.
This tool should work on most Linux distributions
based on RPM, DEB or TGZ package management.
Cheers!
--
Chandrashekar Babu.,
FOSS Technologist,
http://www.chandrashekar.info/
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