[Techtalk] Uninstalling programs in Linux
Marian Routh
malke at attbi.com
Wed May 1 04:43:37 EST 2002
On Wednesday May 01 2002 12:16 am, Rebecca J. Walter wrote:
>
> If it is the original rpm you downloaded, you can just throw that
> out. Once the rpm is installed, it puts the actual stuff it needs
> into a different directory. You only need to keep that .rpm file if
> you want it to install it again or to install on a different computer
> in a network.
Thanks, Rebecca. I'm not talking about the rpm - I know you can get rid
of that or save it for another installation. I'm talking about the
actual program that is on the hard disk, taking up 234 MB of precious
space. Since the uninstall routines apparently don't work or I'm not
doing them correctly, can I just delete all references to the program
and that will get rid of it? You know, delete folders, executables,
etc. It doesn't look like Linux has a registry the way Windows does.
Cheers,
Malke
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