[linux-audio-user] Re: Gnome Wave Cleaner

[Bob]

David Cournapeau wrote:
> On 8/12/05, Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
> 
>>>Yes.  I thought that seemed odd.  Thanks for verifying.
>>>***What's the correct way to un-install them now?***
>>
>>go back into the source code directory you built+installed them from.
>>type:
>>
>>        make uninstall
>>
>>you must not have re-run configure with different options since doing
>>the last make install.
>>
>>note that in the case of the ultimate screw up (e.g. with JACK), you can
>>still use this method. suppose you mistakenly did this:
>>
>>        (unpack source tarball)
>>        cd srcdir
>>        ./configure
>>        make
>>        make install
>>        (remember that you mean to use --prefix=/usr)
>>        ./configure --prefix=/usr
>>        make
>>        make install
>>        (remember that you shouldn't mix tarballs and packages)
>>
>>looks bad now - you have two versions of the software, one under /usr,
>>one under /usr/local.
>>
>>its ok, just do this:
>>
>>        cd srcdir
>>        ./configure
>>        make uninstall
>>        ./configure --prefix
>>        make uninstall
>>
>>and its all cleaned up.
>>
>>--p "no sir, never had to do that, no sir, never, no sir"
> 
> 
> An advice I would add: do not install libraries from source code by
> yourself (ie without your package manager knowing it), because it will
> cause many problems later, if you do not know exactly what you are
> doing.
> 
> If you really want to try some new versions from source, you should
> use something like checkinstall, which builds a rpm or a .deb from
> your sources.
> 
> http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/
> 
> The big advantage of this method is that your package manager knows
> about what you installed, and where, thus making the uninstall part a
> non problem.
> 
> 
Hi Now thats a nice link!

Bob