uninstalling non RPM programs

[JD Runyan]

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From: "Eric Gilliland" <jegilliland at hotmail.com>
To: Jason.Runyan at NITCKC.USDA.Gov
Subject: Re: uninstalling non RPM programs

It was just installed from the commercial CD.  It is Quake 3.  I installed 
in into my root directory, which doesn't have muvh room, and I want to 
uninstall it from there and install it into mu /home directory, which had 
gigs and gigs of free space.

Thanks,

Eric Gilliland

>From: JD Runyan <Jason.Runyan at NITCKC.USDA.Gov>
>To: kclug at kclug.org
>Subject: Re: uninstalling non RPM programs
>Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 10:27:16 -0600
>
>How was it installed?  Binary vendor supplied installer (ie star office),
>built from source, etc
>
>if it was built from source, and the source code maintainer was nice, all 
>you
>have to do is untar the source tree again, and run the configure script in 
>the
>same manner you did when you compiled it, and then type "make uninstall"  
>This
>works about 65% of the time with software you find at gnu.org
>On Fri, Jan ,  at 11:55:26PM -0600, Eric Gilliland wrote:
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>> Can someone please tell me how to uninstall a NON RPM program?  Is it 
>just
>> as simple as deleting the folder it is in?
>>
>> I wish you all a good weekend.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Eric Gilliland
>>
>>
>>
>> J. Eric Gilliland
>> jegilliland at hotmail.com
>> Meet it is I set it down, that one may smile, and smile, and be a 
>villain.
>> Hamlet Act 1 Scene 5
>>
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J. Eric Gilliland
jegilliland at hotmail.com
Meet it is I set it down, that one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
Hamlet Act 1 Scene 5

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JD Runyan
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