Re: Uninstalling a program

[seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 00:12, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi Phillip,
> 
> At 12:58 PM 4/8/2003 -0400, Phillip Compton wrote:
> >If you're looking to make package management / upgrading easier, may I
> >suggest using apt-get/synaptic or yum.
> 
> 1) Can apt-get remove a program installed from tarball? 

If it can I'd be REALLY impressed. :)



> 2) Synatic and Yum are also new to me.  Currently I am using "checkinstall" 
> at time of installing a tarball.  It builds a RPM for uninstallation.  I am 
> also interested to learn some other programs.

Synaptic is a graphical interface for apt-get

yum is a command line tool that does pkg installation and updating -
much like what apt does.

-sv