Uninstalling programs
Hello.
I would appreciate help in this topic since my knowledge in Linux is still quite low. How do you uninstall a program which was installed with the standard ./configure, make and make install process (that is, no RPM or things like that)? Thank you for your time. |
checkinstall
I use checkinstall to install source packages as rpms. You use the following command sequence:
./configure make checkinstall checkinstall will create a Debian, RPM, or Slackware package. Then you install that package. When you want to remove it you use rpm -e to uninstall the package. To remove programs that you have already installed with make install you install the package a second time with checkinstall. Then remove it with rpm -e You can download checkinstall from: http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/ |
Thank you very much, I will start looking that tool.
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try going into the source directory and typing "make uninstall". That works like 7/10 times. But it relies on the programmer providing that feature. I still recommend checkinstall though.
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