[H-GEN] What have I installed?

[Steven Shaw]

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It won't help this time but I find that never installing .tar.gz files to
the default location works for me. Something like:

    $ tar tvfz foo-0.1.tar.gz
    $ cd foo-0.1
    $ ./configure --prefix ~/local/foo-0.1
    $ make
    $ make check
    $ make install

You have to set up your PATH, MANPATH and maybe LD_LIBRARY_PATH or whatever
but at least you know where the stuff is. Then you can remove by rm -f
~/local/foo-0.1. Package systems are overrated ;-) [1]

Steve.

[1] I'm kidding.


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