Hi

i have installed a tar.gz file using the ./configure, make, make install. No i wish to unistall it . Is there a way to identify where
all those files have gone?

Thanks you

Many Makefiles contain an uninstall directive; i.e., "make uninstall."

For those that don't, you can "cheat death" by, in the directory where you built that software (and haven't blown it away yet), just execute the checkinstall utility -- it creates a Slackware package and you can then "removepkg packagename" to remove the installation.

If you did blow it away, just redo the configure and make steps then run checkinstall and "removepkg packagename."

If you did not install checkinstall, it's in the extra directory.

not all software has this but if you still have the source folder i believe you can do make uninstall

doh too late

Nice it worked thanks .

tronayne i have tried checkinstall and is quite handy.
The tgz file of checkinstall is situated here

Checkinstall won't work for any file that does anything special in an installation(such as updating scrollkeeper database, or things like that that are automatically done in a make install), and it does not do ANYTHING that make uninstall does(such as undoing what was done in make install) except for removing files.

This could result in zombie entries of a program in whatever database it registers itself into.

That wasn't worded well, but I think you understand.

make install
make clean


and then make uninstall when you want to uninstall is the absolute safest and most stable way to install software from source, and checkinstall should only be used if there is no uninstall function at all.(even then, make install DESTDIR=/work && cd /work && makepkg <pkgname> is still better, as at least that way you know checkinstall/installwatch isn't missing certain files(such as static linked libraries and such))

I think I'd rather keep the 500K extra(compared to how large the packages are, on average) source code than worry about using checkinstall.