[Techtalk] Uninstalling programs in Linux

[Rebecca J. Walter]

On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 14:08, hobbit at aloss.ukuu.org.uk wrote:
> On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 04:43:37AM -0700 or thereabouts, Marian Routh wrote:
> > 
> > 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.


Marian: Maybe before you do all this, you could come to #linuxchix on
irc.linuxchix.org.  There are several chix in there most of the time and
maybe we could help you figure out the best way to do this live. That
would be easier, in my opinion, that swapping e-mails back and forth.


> 
> You could try "rpm -ql nameofpackage" and that may give you a list
> of every file it installed. Maybe, perhaps. This rpm seems to be
> rather an odd one. "rpm ql nameofpackage > to-nuke-list" will put it
> in a file for you; you could then edit that file to remove anything
> that looks like it's supposed to be there, and stuff "rm" in front
> of every line and run it as a script.
> 
> Drastic, potentially dangerous, but a thought. (And someone is
> bound to come up with something better after I suggest this.)
> 
> Telsa
> 
> 
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