[CS-FSLUG] Install/uninstall procedures

[N. Thompson]

Robert W. wrote:

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>
> Stow has a switch that deletes the symbolic links. Then you delete 
> the  directory, and the package is completely uninstalled.
>
> I use stow for installing non-rpm applications. Makes it easy to 
> clean  up programs that have outlived their usefullness. I could never 
> get  checkinstall to work (I didn't try very hard either).
>

I have had a lot of trouble with Checkinstall in SUSE Linux but not 
Mandrake, I don't know what difference between the two distributions may 
be responsible but I have to admit trying to find out is more then I'm 
motivated to do right now. I have simply resorted to using "make" and 
"make install" by themselves, I only need a few applications installed 
from source and all of them have a "make uninstall" option.

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