Myk D wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I really new to linux and I'm using Ubuntu. I recently installed PHP
> 4.3.10 and Apache 1.3.33 manually by downloading the source from their
> respective sites and using the "./configure" to configure the
> installation. Everything went well except that I missed some
> extensions for both PHP and Apache (like mod_rewrite) and I would like
> to completely remove both installations and make a fresh installation.
> The thing is, I have no idea whatsoever on how to remove them cleanly.
> Hope you guys can help me sort this thing out.

Two recomendations:
1) stow. If you compile something locally, lookinto using stow to keep
everything nice and neat[1]

2) checkinstall. checkinstall can intercept the make install process,
and make a package that can be installed or de-installed.

I have used stow, I have never used checkinstall.

-john
[1] Some people do not like the symlink trees that stow uses.
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