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Mallrats
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 Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2003 12:12 pm Post subject: Portage ups and downs |
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Maybe I'm asking why portage exists, but here goes
Most programs are in portage, but there are some small things people download every once in a while that they need to install that are not
Things from source [configure make make install]. I know you can uninstall them with make uninstall, but is there a better way, in case you delete the source?
Cheers, Mallrats
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slartibartfasz
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| Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2003 2:46 pm Post subject: Re: Portage ups and downs |
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| Mallrats wrote: | | Maybe I'm asking why portage exists |
hehe - yeah - u could write an ebuild for the prog its not so difficult - just read the ebuild howto, select an ebuild thats similar (dependencies) to the one u want to write and tweak it
or use rpm...
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Pythonhead
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| Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2003 5:43 pm Post subject: |
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No, there is no easy way if you deleted the source. You could always get the source again, of course, and do a 'make uninstall'.
The sample ebuild in /usr/portage/skel.ebuild should work for 'simple' ./configure && make && make install ebuilds. |
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