On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 10:44 AM, cjzjm100 cjzjm100@163.com wrote:
Hi guys! today i tried to install the latest stardict. ... If i install the software from source code,how can i uninstall it?
You should try to always stick to RPMs when using RHEL/CentOS. There are several advantages to it, from the points of view of documentation, the possibility of reproduce a setup, easily upgrade packages (without borking configuration files), a way to verify if your system was compromised, among many many others. By installing software without using RPM you ruin all that for yourself.
To get the RPMs, you might try Dag Wieers repository, he has stardict-2.4.4: http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/stardict/
If you want a more recent version, you can try to request that on rpmforge-users mailing list (it might take sometime though): http://lists.rpmforge.net/mailman/listinfo/users
Alternatively, you can try to rebuild Fedora Core 9 packages on CentOS. You can find SRPMs for stardict-3.0.1 here: http://www.muug.mb.ca/pub/fedora/linux/releases/9/Everything/source/SRPMS/st...
I've had good experiences rebuilding FC8/FC9 SRPMs on CentOS 4 and CentOS 5 when I needed more recent versions of software that were not available in other repositories.
HTH, Filipe