how do I uninstall a .tar.gz package 1016

On 27 Apr 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.misc, in article

The FHS document has a limited scope:

* Local placement of local files is a local issue, so FHS does not attempt to usurp system administrators.

but a little further down, it describes what should be inusr-localand a common concept is that there should only be directories inusr-localand one of those is

src Local source code

My own experience-training is that the tarball gets dropped there, and after running 'tar -zxf foo-1.2.3.tar.gz' there should be a directory namedusr-local-src-foo orusr-local-src-foo-1.2.3 with the source files and what-not. cd into that directory, and do your thing in there.

Not surprising - it's not a "standard" account. This would be an account the system administrator creates locally. Likewise the user and group numbers depend on how the account was created. (Up-thread, I show

builder:x:3258:192:Software Builder:-usr-local-src:-bin-bash

and there is nothing magic about UID 3258 or GID 192 other than they are not in use by others.

No. The name that you give the account used to build software is a local decision. What is unsafe is building software as root, or even as a regular user without taking precautions. I know of a person who only builds and tests software on a "throw-away" stand-alone system - no network, no users, nothing important on the system. If things work, the binaries and documentation gets transferred to the production systems. If things don't work, then the only harm is the wasted time - the system can be wiped and reinstalled as needed.

Old guy