Re: [SLUG] start scripts on Debian

[Simon Wong <linux@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 10:38, David wrote:
> Second question: Having done the usual configure/make/make-install, what's
> the approved way to remove everything that was installed?

There is a package called stow that is great for installing non-packaged
applications.

You configure your source to install into the Stow directory e.g.
/usr/local/stow/application-0.12

Then use stow to install where you want.  It makes sym links to the
actual application e.g. /usr/bin/app ->
/usr/local/stow/application-0.12/bin/app

I always install into a dir witht he version number in the name so you
can parallel install diff versions in the stow directory.

IBM DeveloperWorks have a nice tutorial:
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-stow/

Stow will also remove the symlinks for you.

Another thing to note is that you can give make the "-n" flag so it will
show you what it's going to do befoe it actually does it.  This is a
good way to check what's going to be clobbered.

e.g.

$ make -n install


HTH

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Simon Wong <linux@xxxxxxxxx>
Wongy.org