Uninstalling packages

jlp1976 · 03-09-2005, 08:28 AM

Hello,
I want to uninstall a package that was built from scratch :
./configure
make
make install

I have read that "make uninstall" would do the trick. However when I run this comand. I get an error, something like "target not found"

I have been able to install ok, but now I would like learn how to unistall.

I relatively new guy to Linux and I would greatly appreciate the help.

Mystified · 03-09-2005, 08:39 AM

If you kept the directory where you untarred the original tarball from that directory you can run make uninstall. Otherwise you're just going to have to manually delete the files.

jlp1976 · 03-09-2005, 08:48 AM

This might be a dumb question.

But how exactly do you manually uninstall?

I guess you mean "rm" files and folders .... from where? What are the typical places where I should look.

I run RH9.

Please advise