Newbie Questions

[John Allman]

Fredrik Persson wrote:

>>I am fairly new to linux and wine as well.  I was wanting to install
>>another version of wine but i need to uninstall the first one i got.  I
>>know how to do this if it were an RPM but its not it was a tgz file that
>>i had to build and install myself how would I uninstall this.
>>    
>>
>
>I think that if you go to the directory where you compiled the source and did "make install" and instead type "make uninstall", you'll remove the files and set your system back to pre-wine status.
>
>Although if you just want to try another version, you can untar the tarball, and then do
>
>./configure --prefix=/path/to/temp/wine/new/version/directory
>make
>make install
>
>That way you won't have to remove your old setup.
>
Yep - i'm pretty sure wine comes with an uninstall target. For future 
reference I would use checkinstall. It will make an rpm for you at 
compile time. then its easy to uninstall. works for debian and slackware too

John