On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 03:21:32PM -0400, John Sawyer wrote:

not sure if ive asked this, but i am unsure of how to uninstall something taht i have compiled in, such as gaim, through a .tar.gz ext... i also want to uninstall netscape, i downloaded the newest ver but it gives me crap about somethingapp being in the dir already, any ideas?

You usually have to just find all the files and delete them. When you install stuff by compiling tar.gz yourself, there is usually no package management for easy uninstallation. Netscape probably installed to /usr/local/netscape* or something like that.