Uninstall programs in Linux

[Frank McCormick]

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On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 20:28:27 +0100
Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org> wrote:

> 
> On Sat, 2007-11-24 at 20:55 +0300, OOzy Pal wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > How do you usually uninstall programs compiled from source
> > (configure/make/make install) in Ubuntu?
> 
> If the makefile provides no uninstall target (make uninstall), then
> you are basically out of luck and need to track the files yourself
> (note which files are installed by "make install". You can prevent
> this by doing "checkinstall make install" instead of a plain "make
> install" in the first place. This will create a *.deb package that
> 

   AFAIK the command using checkinstall is not "checkinstall make
install" but more simply just "checkinstall".
The routine is make,then  checkinstall. Then you can remove the software
with dpkg remove whatever.

Cheers
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Frank McCormick  debian at videotron.ca
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