Uninctalling softare

[aze]

Hi all!

I recently downloaded and installed mozzila 1.3a. But it seems to be a beta version.

How do I remove it including all unnecessary dependents files? I tried RPMDrake but no references was found to this mozilla version.

Thank you!

[bvc]

How did you install it?

-manually in a term?

-rpmdrake from sources?

-urpmi?

-tar?

[aze]

that was

 

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/release...1.3a-sea.tar.gz

mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.3a-sea.tar.gz

I didn't noted that is a beta version. Besides I can remeber were did I installed it.

In windows sistem user cannot simply delete the installed program folder (just in some cases) otherwise it can generated some inconveniences. Who don't know the windows registry?

I mean, what can be comparated with windows registry on linux?

[bvc]

For a tar, the best advice I can give is to locate the folder you extracted to and read the README, INSTALL, and if there is one the UNINSTALL files. If there's no info on uninstalling, for a tar it's usually a matter of changing to the directory the tar is extracted to and running

 

make uninstall

 

To clean up everything after the uninstall you can do

make distclean

or

make clean

to clean up the source binaries ect...then delete the folder.

 

 

To find where it is use the locate command or, what I use(much faster), slocate.

slocate *mozilla

or a variation of

slocate *mozilla-x-x (where x is the version)

 

if you don't have slocate and want to install it;

urpmi slocate

 

 

 

For an rpm, mozilla is installed in /usr/lib, so for a tar it's probably /user/local/lib, but you'll have to look and see.

 

[EDITED]Since I use mandrake, I run from tarballs :wink:

http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php

[aze]

Thank you!

Have Linux a kind of "registry"? Were's stored all informations? Users prefs, Programs cfgs, Hardware cfg...

Ty!

[bvc]

Have Linux a kind of "registry"?

No, not like Windows.

 

 

Were's stored all informations? Users prefs, Programs cfgs, Hardware cfg...

They're all scattered around and depends on what you are looking for. User and Program prefs are usually in ~/.name_of_program, or in /etc/name_of_program.

 

Hardware?...like what?

 

The best way to find some config files is to use

rpm -ql name_of_program

and look for a config file of some sort.

 

Look in /etc/sysconfig and /etc/rc.d, and be careful :wink: