A few basic questions...

[Jinx]

I must say from moving to linux around 4 months back I have learnt heaps... and got a lot of help off this site too. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

There have been a few little things that I haven't quiet figured out yet, so I thought I would ask the people who would know...

1. How do I uninstall Tarball packages?
2. Can someone give me a rough idea of what the different / dirs are used for... I figured usr/bin as being a shared dir for all the programs you have... but I am not sure about var and the rest.
3. I need a bit of a brush up on what is going on when I ./configure, make and make install?

Thanks. Trying to get over the Windows desease.

Cya round
Jinx

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"Cereal is good for you."

[pbharris]

1. How do you uninstall tarball packages - use pkgtool ( i am assuming you are using slackware, if not, just find the files from the tar ball and delete them)

2. this is the slackware webpage, but it applies to virually all *NIX's http://www.slackware.com/config/rootdir.php

3. .configure will see what your system is currently congigured like (kernel version, libs...) make will compile and make install will put things in the right spot.

[This message has been edited by pbharris (edited 14 December 2000).]

[bkurt]

Read this NHF and all your questions will be answered. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/compiling/softinstall.html

[mdwatts]

All your questions can be answered by reading the NHF's here. A good idea for anyone to spend a few minutes to read.

[foppa]

Originally posted by bkurt:
Read this NHF and all your questions will be answered. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/compiling/softinstall.html

Anyone know why the name was changed from "The Installing and Uninstalling Software NHF" to "The Compiling Software NHF"?

I've looked for this topic several times and skipped right over it because I have a handle on compiling.