Re: [LAU] [OT] Unistalling programs

From: Peder Hedlund <peder@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Fri Jan 15 2010 - 18:37:41 EET

Quoting Marco Castorina <marco.castorina@email-addr-hidden>:

> Hi there,
> maybe for many of you this is an easy task, but I still don't know
> a way of disinstalling programs installed by src (that is not using
> deb packages, as I'm on Ubuntu). Of course they don't appear
> in synaptic and, even looking around the web, I didn't find any
> working solution.

I recommend using 'stow' when you install.

Compile with prefix=/opt/name-and-version (say /opt/ardour-3.0.1) and
after installing run 'stow -d /opt -t /usr/local ardour-3.0.1' to
create symlinks in /usr/local.

If you later decide the program is buggy as hell and want to remove it
you run 'stow -D -d /opt -t /usr/local ardour-3.0.1 ; rm -rf
/opt/ardour-3.0.1' to remove the symlinks and the program.
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