Problem in Uninstalling

[Yugal]

I have a problem, if you have a solution.. please help...

Problem 1 : Uninstalling the Non-RPM Or the Non-YUM packages
(Like Tarballs) from any rpm based OS

I am eagerly seeking solution to this problem and i know that the
solution to this problem exists but its like a trivial question that
has never being asked by anyone around me....

its straight :

For rpm : rpm -e xyz (Removes)
For Yum : yum remove xyz (Removes)

But if the package was lets say not installed by any of these medium..
lets say it came from a tar ball , then what ?
And also...

It might happen that the package entry gets deleted from the rpm
database ? (RPM has a database for all this..)


Problem 2 : Uninstalling apps removes the dependencies. why ?

I tried to remove the a basic unnecessary app found in the menu in
fedora.. it went away with nautilus. why ?
You would have seen that apps uninstall with there dependencies (many
of those if not all) but why ?
And then what is the work around for this ???


I will be glad if you can help me in this...???

Yugal Jindle

[narendra sisodiya]

On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 2:16 AM, Yugal <yuga...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have a problem, if you have a solution.. please help...

Problem 1 :       Uninstalling the Non-RPM  Or  the Non-YUM packages
(Like Tarballs) from any rpm based OS

I am eagerly seeking solution to this problem and i know that the
solution to this problem exists but its like a trivial question that
has never being asked by anyone around me....

its straight :

For rpm :       rpm -e xyz   (Removes)
For Yum :      yum remove xyz  (Removes)

But if the package was lets say not installed by any of these medium..
lets say it came from a tar ball , then what ?
And also...

It might happen that the package entry gets deleted from the rpm
database ? (RPM has a database for all this..)

I think deletion of the who directory will be helpful.

Problem 2 :       Uninstalling apps removes the dependencies. why ?
 

I tried to remove the a basic unnecessary app found in the menu in
fedora.. it went away with nautilus.  why ?
You would have seen that apps uninstall with there dependencies (many
of those if not all) but why ?
And then what is the work around for this ???

may you tell me what exactly you wanted to remove and you think something went wrong

I will be glad if you can help me in this...???

Yugal Jindle

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[Shakthi Kannan]

Hi,

--- On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 2:16 AM, Yugal<yuga...@gmail.com> wrote:
| But if the package was lets say not installed by any of these medium..
| lets say it came from a tar ball , then what ?
| And also...
|
| It might happen that the package entry gets deleted from the rpm
| database ? (RPM has a database for all this..)

\--

No, source tarball installation is done manually by the user, and is
not tracked by the RPM database.

If you install a software from the sources - typically,

$ ./configure; make; sudo make install

you will need to retain this source directory, because if you have to
uninstall the same, you will need to do:

$ sudo make uninstall

and then remove the sources directory. I usually put the manually
installed sources in ~/installs directory, so I know I should cleanly
remove them.

---

| I tried to remove the a basic unnecessary app found in the menu in
| fedora.. it went away with nautilus.  why ?

\--

Because if you remove the dependency, the other applications will not
work without it.

SK

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