General Installation/Uninstallation Questions

[w0lf42]

Red Hat 6.1
Gnome
P 166MMX 64RAM

I 'successfully' installed my first program (StarOffice 5.2). However, I installed it in my root directory and I believe that I am unable to access that via the other users.

How do I install a program so that all users can use it?
I have seen this option to run installation files:
./so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin /net
Is this correct? and what does the /net do?

What is a good directory to install to?
I am very new to Linux and I don't everything randomly scattered everywhere.

I'm not at my Linux box currently, how do you uninstall a program?

Thanks in advance

[trekker]

If I remember correctly, staroffice has a few installation options: network installation (for multi-user installation), workstation installation. I believe the /net specify the network install. If that is chosen, I think each user will need to run the setup to use it under their acct. You will probably need to be root to do the network installation.

I think there is a NHF on staroffice installation. You might want to check it out.

To uninstall programs, you have to see whether they are installed as rpms or from source. It is easier to manage rpms, just type "rpm -e <rpmname>" to uninstall. For programs compiled from source, you need to still have your makefile and "make uninstall".

Hope this helps.

[w0lf42]

Tekker,

Thanks for your help. I'll give it a try when I get home from work.