how do I uninstall a .tar.gz package 1013

danish

Hmmm, I'm not sure I understand. You can certainly see what files are part of the package with virtually all package managers. Both before and after installation. And you can get source packages instead of binary packages in most cases, and install from these. But see below...

Double hmmm, I would have thought 'tar -ztf some.tgz' would have done the same (for GNU tar, at least), but these commands show the files in the archive - which is fine if the archive holds a binary 'package'. If, however, you've got source (which would be inferred from your original post), then that command does not show the files that are placed into your system on the 'make install'.

In *both* cases, however, inspection of the contents (whether a true 'package' or a tar file) isn't going to tell you what to remove in the general case *after* installation.

Further, scripts run during package installation or 'make install' may alter *existing files* in ways that are quite difficult to detect and revert. In the end, you've got to look at the specific instance and do some thinking. Most of the time, however, people developing real 'packages' put more effort into making it possible to uninstall properly than do many people who put applications into archive files (zip or tar). Yes, that's a generalization, I know of counterexamples, of course.

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