A decent uninstaller for source-compiled and standalone installer applications. Some kind of installer "wrapper" which would make a record of installed files and either offer the option to uninstall them for you, or at least give you a "roadmap" to do it by hand.
It could be as simple as a script which does a recursive ls from root directory before and after the install, and then reports the changes in the "after" file. An added bonus would be if the whole process was automatic, such as the following command line (using an example standalone installer):
uninstaller /root/install/OOo/setup
...which makes the text dbase of the system, runs /root/install/OOo/setup, then makes another text dbase and reports the differences between the two.
It would be very nice to be able to have a batch install mode, where the second files dbase was then used as the baseline dbase for the second application installer. For example, since OpenOffice.org 2.0 now requires a current version of Java, it would be nice to be able to run first the Java standalone installer, then the OpenOffice.org 2.0 installer, all from the comfort of one "uninstaller wrapper" which then provides you with the necessary information to uninstall both of them.
For source-compiled applications, something to reverse "make install" would be nice too.
--- Arthur Pemberton pemboa@gmail.com wrote:
Can anyone suggest a small application CLI or GUI that just seems to be "missing" from Linux? Not necessarily an application that exists in Windows, but not in Linux, but a program that would make \ some part of your Linux experience better.
I am just dying to make a cool Linux app/project, but I am lacking ideas. For interface, I am considering console, GTK+ or Qt. For programming language, I am considering Python or C++;
I appreciate your ideas.
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