make install

The_JinJ · 11-25-2004, 10:48 PM

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?)

perfect_circle · 11-25-2004, 11:03 PM

many makefiles have a
"make uninstall"
option

The_JinJ · 11-26-2004, 01:40 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by perfect_circle
many makefiles have a
"make uninstall"
option

Thanks

Zuggy · 11-26-2004, 03:09 AM

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

Code:

checkinstall

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.