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Look in Makefile and see what the install paths are.
run make again in source dir. see what bins/libs/directory are created. use "find" to locate bins/libs/direcrtory
and remove them.
Note, also check README and Makefile to make sure
there isn't any uninstall insructions.
Note 2, that why I alway do a:
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/app-name
ohhhh, so it doesnt matter (like windoze ) if the files are in one folder and you delete them without unistalling them, but what if there is information in configuration files etc. etc.
In addition to what pickledbeans said, some programs, and only a very few, come with a "make uninstall" option. That's nice.
For the most part most linux programs are not going to change any configuration files, or really, they would just add more, not modify anything, that would make it messy.
Originally posted by GT I.N.C Ismod or rmmod don work???....i had this problem with the 'make' command, i didn install the package.....i removed the entries from the modules.conf
Something I've noticed is the moudles directory is empty
with 2.4.x as apposed to 2.2.x? But every thing still works?
How you suppose to know what modules you're have to work with if you cann't see them all?
You can manually delete them, if you want. You might want to check the makefile and see where "make install" put things, but really in the case of a driver, you're looking at less than 1 Mb of wasted disk space and as long as you edit that line out of /etc/modules.conf your machine isn't even going to burp with that extra code just taking up space.
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