Re: [SLUG] Uninstalling Mozilla

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Tue Aug 05 2003 - 03:16:22 EDT


On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 01:31:40AM -0400, Bob Stia wrote:

> Hello Sluggers,
>
> Awhile back I installed Mozilla from a tarball which I got from
> Mozilla org. I have decided that I want to uninstall it.
>
> Now, when you install this package you don't havbe to configure it or
> make it. You just type ./mozilla and off it goes. I saved the tarball
> as usual for my programs so if I don't want them I can reverse the
> install process. That doesn't seem possible for this program--or is
> it?
>
> Am I going to have to delete the gazillion files manually. There is an
> install log which shows everything, but like I said, there must be a
> gazillion files there.

The short answer is that, yes, you will have to delete a gazillion
files. This is the reason for things like package management software,
apt, rpm and the like. Sometimes a programmer will include an
"uninstall" target in a makefile, but if you didn't have to run make,
then you're stuck.

Paul
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