Non RPM software upgrades

[Cyber Source]

uninstalling a compiled program is as simple as deleting the directory
where it is. In Linux you always have to have a mount point for data,
whether it be floppy, cd, hdd whatever
On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 17:28, David Mangani wrote:

> 	I installed Netscape 7 from CD ( I had laying around from windows and noticed 
> it had a linux version as well ). It was not in rpm format, I think it was 
> ./instal and then an installation wizard pretty much did the rest. How would 
> I now either remove this program or upgrade it to a newer version since it 
> wasn't installed with RPM. Is it very difficult to do?
> 
> 	Secondly, I have been struggling to get RH9 to see my windows drive. ( It is 
> on its own HDD ) I tried mounting it manually, edited the fstab file, tried 
> all different options, filesystem types vfat,dos,etc. NOTHING worked. Kept 
> getting no mount point defined. Anyways, googled mount point found my answer 
> in like 2 seconds ugggggg. All I had to do was mkdir /win-c to match the 
> entry I made in fstab. I have several books on RH and nowhere was there a 
> mention of having do mkdir to gain access to windows or anyother file/system 
> to be mounted. I guess sometimes the best lessons are the ones we learn from 
> missing obvious things.
> 
> Dave.

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