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5.5: Un-installing ftape

Note: You have to be `root' to un-install the driver. Either you login as root or do a `su' at the shell prompt.

The makefile contains an `uninstall' target. Note the makefile tries to remove the modules from the directory that is configured in the file [/usr/src/ftape-4.05/]MCONFIG only. If you have edited MCONFIG and changed the installation path prefixes after running `make install' then `make uninstall' will try to remove the files from the new locations which might not be what you want. Also, if running `make uninstall' with a new version of ftape may not remove all the files of the old release of ftape if the defaults for the installation paths have changed or if some of the modules or helper utilities have vanished from the new release.

The installation paths in question can be configured by editing

[/usr/src/ftape-4.05/]MCONFIG.

As the ftape helper utilities are now shipped with the separate ftape-tools distribution there is only a single variable left

MODULESDIR = /lib/modules/$(KERNEL_VERSION)/misc

where $(KERNEL_VERSION) is set by MCONFIG to the version of the kernel ftape is compiled for.

Simply typing

make uninstall

in the top directory of the ftape sources will result in the following actions.


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