Whereis is a good commmand for that. Do whereis netscape Or whereis netscapex (with your version number. Finds binary, man stuff, etc for files..check man whereis for more info Eric -----Original Message----- From: Charles R. Anderson [mailto:cra@WPI.EDU] Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 10:53 AM To: wlug@wlug.org Subject: Re: [Wlug] question 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. _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug@mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug