Uninstall programs in Linux

Chris Jones jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk
Sat Nov 24 18:00:45 UTC 2007


Hi,

> How do you usually uninstall programs compiled from source
> (configure/make/make install) in Ubuntu?

There is no easy way... At least as far as I know.

That is why it is always best only used pre-compiled packages for your 
system (i.e. .deb on ubunutu) these are easy to remove.

Chris





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