what to delete in /usr

Chris Aitken caitken-Bm8TULXj0r/3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org
Tue Feb 7 15:06:05 UTC 2006


Lennart Sorensen wrote:

>On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 09:39:18AM -0500, Chris Aitken wrote:
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>>That's a handy command -- thanks. I found vmware (which I'm not using). 
>>I deleted all related files, as root,  with rm -rf /usr/lib/vmware/*
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>Amazingly vmware has an uninstall script that actually cleans up
>everything properly. 
>
I assume it's on the CD somewhere...

> Kernel modules, init scripts, etc.  You just left
>a mess doing it manually.
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>
Oops. I tried rpm -e vmware and rpm -e VMware and it didn't take so I 
did it manually.

>Might want to go do it properly instead.
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OK, I'll browse the VMware CD for an uninstall script and directions.

Chris

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