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From: Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} "make uninstall" with no rule
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:18:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49bf44f10906121118lfedfeebkc3a3de712a890be8@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u3aa5e8n2.fsf@newsguy.com>

>> I'm just now learning how to compile and install manually.  I
>> installed makemkv-1.4.1 manually and now I found an ebuild so I'd like
>> to install the latest version via the ebuild, but I get:
>>
>> # make uninstall
>> make: *** No rule to make target `uninstall'.  Stop.
>>
>> The makefile doesn't mention uninstall.  Should I just install over
>> the current installation via the ebuild?  Is there any way to do this
>> cleanly?
>
> When I've wanted to remove manually built packages... I've rerun
> make install like this:
>
>  make install >../<package>_install.log 2>&1
>
> Then from the install log you can see what has been installed and
> remove it by hand.

That worked brilliantly, thanks a lot.

- Grant



      reply	other threads:[~2009-06-12 18:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-12 16:02 [gentoo-user] {OT} "make uninstall" with no rule Grant
2009-06-12 16:08 ` Paul Hartman
2009-06-12 16:09 ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2009-06-12 18:18   ` Grant [this message]

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