Clean way to uninstall apps installed from source
 

Excuse me, there've been threads telling how to install packages from source

what about cleanly and safely uninstalling those from-source-installed apps???

I've heard about make uninstall, but not all packages have that rule

Do I have to locate the related files and rm them 1 by 1 ???

Look into checkinstall.

checkinstall is great....

but if ou choose not to use that, then maybe you should take advantage of the --prefix= parameter of a configure script.... ans install programs you may later want to uninstall to a folder that you can remember.... maybe prexix=/usr/local/programX