How do you uninstall a program from terminal?

trist007 · 08-19-2008, 05:06 PM

Let's say I'm using fedora 8 in the terminal and I download a tar.gz file

I tar -xvvzf *.tar.gz

I cd into that extracted dir

I run ./configure so that the source can be configured to my distro

I run make && make install && make clean

Now that the program is installed, how would I uninstall it later on down the line?

Also, how do you restore deleted files?

pixellany · 08-19-2008, 05:36 PM

If you don't install with the package manager, all you can do is track down the files and delete them. Hopefully they will all have names that include the name of the program.

If you delete files and directories from a terminal, there is no way to restore in the normal GUI sense (eg trashcan). You would have to use a file recovery utility like Testdisk. The files would only be recoverable if nothing else had been written to the relevant portions of the drive.

resetreset · 08-20-2008, 01:36 AM

try make uninstall.

bitpicker · 08-20-2008, 03:52 AM

But note that make uninstall only works if you don't make clean first.

Robin

ErV · 08-20-2008, 03:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bitpicker

But note that make uninstall only works if you don't make clean first.

Robin

make uninstall works only if it is supported in makefile. Many programs don't support "make uninstall". So making software package (and then installing package) instead of directly installing from source was a better idea.