make install - clean up
 

Whats the best way to clean up, uninstall if you like, applications installed from source? Is it just a case of backtracking and removing all files it installed (binary ones?)

many makefiles have a
"make uninstall"
option

Thanks

If you use Slackware or a slackware-based distro there's instead of make install use this command after the make command

This will open up a program that will install the program as a Slackware-Package that can be easily uninstalled from the pkgtool and shared with others.