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["Carl Reaburn" <carlreaburn AT attech.net.au>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
To: <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 4:04 AM
Subject: Re: [BL] ipfwadm in BL3


> >
> > > Carl Reaburn wrote:
> > > > /sbin<#>ls
> > > BL1:  Slackware 3.5 kernels/modules   Slackware 3.5 packages
> > > BL2:  Slackware 7.1 kernels/modules   Slackware 7.1 packages
> > > BL3   Slackware 7.1 kernels/modules   Slackware 4.0 packages
> > I did use slackware 7.1, bugger!  Now how the hell am I going to get it 
> > all out again?  I don't suppose there is an uninstall?
>
> Put tcpip2.tgz on your computer.  Go to that directory and type d (or 
> links .) or type d followed by the path to that file, to get a list of all 
> the files in that directory.  Arrow down, hit Enter key, which will list 
> all the files in the package and where they end up (except sometimes some 
> of them are moved around and symlinks made by an install script 
> doinst.sh).  They are probably in just a few directories and you can 
> either delete the entire directory if nothing else is in there, or delete 
> using *.

Thanks to that handy manifest file I was able to construct an uninstall 
script

EG:
***
rm      sbin/ipfwadm
rm      sbin/ipfwadm-2.3.0
rm      sbin/ipchains
rm      sbin/dhclient
...etc
***

worked like a charm.


> You can use the same technique, after installing a package, to remove the 
> parts you do not need (such as ytalk - used for chat between two users on 
> your system), but first type ldd ipwdadm to make sure you don't need any 
> of them  - it will list libraries that you need.  If you did not see 
> anything in a library directory you may not need to do this.
>
> Or you can in some cases just extract the parts you want with tar but 
> someone else will have to explain how as it did not work for me.  You can 
> put the file in /tmp or somewhere else where it is not going to get mixed 
> up with other things, then tar -zxvf tcpip2.tgz and extract it all with 
> the directory structure that it needs (but under /tmp) and then copy over 
> the pieces you want and delete the stuff in /tmp when you are done 
> (/tmp/usr/sbin etc.)  I do this but Steven says it is likely to cause 
> problems and he prefers to install the whole package.  (Fine if you have 
> the space but I don't always).

I removed them from the install file with winrar before installing it into 
linux?  it was a lot easier than hunting them down afterwards.

I now have a working ipchains command in my linux.

Time to fire up some of those How-to's and learn the new firewall syntax.

Thank you to all those who helped.  I have learned a lot about finding and 
installing packages in linux.