Uninstalling software, how do you do it?

[geckolabs]

Is there a way to uninstall software on Linux or do you just remove the files that pretain to it. if that is the case, are they localized in a directory or do you have to search them out.

[nathaniel]

for applications there should be a ./uninstall file in the folder u just need to run but for rpms I used to just rpm -e XXXXX.rpm make sure u get the right one sometimes there are dependces. . . .

NB

[ 16 February 2001: Message edited by: nathaniel ]

[Choozo]

If you are referring to software installed at the time you installed Linux, you can do a uninstall using RPM. Either through e.g. 'kpackage' or from the commandline 'rpm -e <packagename>.
This would be the way to uninstall all programs that are installed using RPM.

If you have compiled the program from source and then installed, there may be a 'uninstall' option for the 'make' command. Try 'make uninstall' in the source directory.

Cheers! :)

[geckolabs]

Thank you very much guys...i appreciate all of your help. I was looking to uninstall different programs that Mandrake 7.2 installed on its own. Is that a RPM? Just curious. Thanks again

[ 16 February 2001: Message edited by: geckolabs ]

[ifred]

Yes. Mandrake is an RPM based distribution so you should be able to remove the unwanted software using rpm -e <filename>.rpm

[Sterling]

Learning your package management tool is a good thing. Being a Debian user, I think rpm is kinda crufty, but it is a good tool. Given the number of software projects that distribute rpm'd releases, you shouldn't ever have to worry about compiling from source. If you do, uninstalling is a bit more complex. Although I think that some source distributions have uninstall stuff in them.... make uninstall sometimes works.

But as I said, you shouldn't have to worry about that.