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I am curious to know what is the difference between make clean and make uninstall when removing a program. Under what circumstances do I use one or the other ?
You should use make clean every time you compile a program. It won't remove the program itself, but it will clean unneeded files creating during the compiling process. make uninstall is very clear about what it does right
however that mean that when I want to reinstall an application and I use make clean (as suggested in an answers article in this site) the files installed will just be overwritten right ?
Is it worth it to do a make uninstall if I just want to reinstall an app ?
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