scaglietti amore wrote:

hello guys

i have centos5.1, and my subject is :

when i install a package without the rpm tool cause its not rpm package like configure , make , make install

how can i uninstall it later ?

if there's an 'uninstall' target in the Makefile, then...

cd projectdirectory (where you built it originally) make uninstall

or, find out what 'make install' did (usually by examining the Makefile in the project directory), and manually undo it.

when i install a package without the rpm tool cause its not rpm package like configure , make , make install

how can i uninstall it later ?

If possible, configure it using --prefix so that everything belonging to it gets installed in the same place, which will make removing it easy. I prefer to install into /usr/local/<application>/<version> so that I can retain old versions while installing a new one. There will be some work to do to make executables available in users' paths. I do it by creating a symbolic link 'current' pointing to the current version, and making links of the contents of current's bin (in terms of current so that they don't change when I switch versions) in /usr/local/bin.

GNU Stow (http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/), not that I use it, has formalised this approach:

GNU Stow helps the sysadmin organise files under /usr/local/ by allowing each piece of software to be installed in its own tree under /usr/local/stow/, and then using symlinks to create the illusion that all the software is installed in the same place.

Jim