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refrain from computing as root as much as possible
it doesn't matter if you configure/compile as a local user, but you must be root to install. just make sure you set the proper permissions for normal users to be able to run the application if you wish for them to do so, or if make doesn't do it for you.
make clean simply cleans out the complied objects in the source directory.... i have been lucky and the author put a make uninstall in the Makefile. if you can't do make uninstall, you will have to look through the Makefile and find which files it installed to and where at.
You may have to go into the directories that it was installed and do it yourself. However, I've seen some make files that have an uninstall option such as 'make uninstall' but this is rarely seen. As far as make clean... I believe all that does is it cleans up all the object files and executables in the directory that you did all the compiling in.
Err... what linuxlastslonge said... hehe... pretty much the same thing
Last edited by Corona4456; 07-29-2004 at 03:37 PM.
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