Re: Moronic newbie question

[Luke Yelavich <lukethemuso ozemail com au>]

At 07:54 PM 20/10/2003, Benj wrote:
> I'm about half way through building gnome 2.4 through gargnome when i
> realised installing as root was probably really really stupid.  I'm only
> on a modem so how can I rebuild to my home directory without losing the
> tarbells I've allready downloaded?  I can see them (as well as bad, root
> makefile) under .../garnome-0.27.1/gnome/...  What should I do?

If you want to keep the tarballs, but rebuild everything, removing all 
cookies and work directories should solve this.

This can probably be done with the following commands in the toplevel 
garnome directory.

find ./ -name cookies |xargs rm -rf
find ./ -name work |xargs rm -rf

Hope this helps

Luke