How to UNINSTALL a program under Linux

[LuckyTaxi]

I know how to do it with rpms, but what if you installed a program that you compiled via the source code?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Sometimes a "make uninstall" works.

 

[LuckyTaxi]

Since you replied first let me ask you this. I had to rebuild my laptop and I installed FreeBSD 4.6 on it. I'm trying to keep it small as possible w/o installing the unnecessary software that comes with RH and Drake. So, I installed Fluxbox and it's nice and fast. Then I realie I needed a browser, so I installed galeon. Good lord, two and half hour later it was still chugging away. It seemed to me it was trying to download gnome. I udnerstand the libraries are required, but what's the point of installing a small WM such as Fuxbox only to have to instal libraries from KDE or GNOME.

So, I had to cancel whatever galeon was doing and now I need to uninstall whatever it installed in the process. I am assuming it was compiling galeon.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Did you try this by ports or manually? If you did it by ports, "pkg_info | more" will tell you what is installed.

 

[LuckyTaxi]

I did this by ports. It downloaded the source for mozilla and then some. A 'pkg_info' showed many libs in regards to GNOME. I went from 499MB after the installation with fluxbox to a little over a GB after a failed attempt to install GNOME 2.0.

I'm not cheap with space, but the whole point of installing BSD was because I wanted a small and fast OS to work with. If I wanted an OS that took over a GB of space I wouldve stayed with RH.

 

[n0cmonkey]

pkg_delete pkgname should uninstall the package.

 

[LuckyTaxi]

i ended up doing that manually for 10 or more progs that were installed during the attempted installation of gnome 2.0. It sucked becuz it kept complaining of dependecies.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Uninstall dependancies first, or risk breaking something (something you are probably uninstalling anyhow) with the -f flag.