Removing manually installed software

Ed Miller miller07 at suddenlink.net
Wed Feb 6 04:08:42 UTC 2008


Peter Smerdon wrote:
> Ed Miller <miller07 at suddenlink.net> writes:
>
>   
>> Hi Ya'll,
>> Is there a command to use to find manually compiled and installed 
>> programs that are out of date or no longer used? Or a command just to 
>> remove these programs? I know where they are but I do not know the 
>> dependencies.
>>
>> Thanks, Ed
>>     
>
> Hello Ed,
>
> if the software package you compiled came with a Makefile, check this
> file to see if there is an `uninstall' target. Sometimes you might be
> able to remove it with the `make uninstall' command.
>
>
>
>   

Thanks for all the replies. I have successfully hunted down the files 
and removed them. I have also tried out the checkinstall command, that 
is great! Wished I had known that one a long time ago.

Again, thanks for all the good information.

Ed




More information about the ubuntu-users mailing list