Program suggestion

[Leo Mauler]

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 at 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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