uninstall a file .tar.gz

[Philip Moller]

Philip Moller wrote:

> Geoffrey Leach wrote:
>
>> On 09.05 09:48, James Wilkinson wrote:
>>
>>> Liloulinx wrote:
>>> > How to uninstall a package installed with namefile.tar.gz?
>>>
>>> With difficulty.
>>
>>
>>
>> It's a tad late for this advice, but for next time install with stow 
>> http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/software/stow/stow.html Stow (a Perl 
>> script) keeps track of all the files installed by installing them in 
>> a seperate directory (/usr/local/stow) and then making links in the 
>> usual places to the files in /usr/local/stow. From here, uninstalling 
>> is straightforward.
>>
> http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/software/stow/stow.html ain't reely working 
> is it ?
>
http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/ is much better !  :-)