On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 06:31:03AM -0400, Binand Sethumadhavan wrote:
>Adayapalam Appaiah Kumaraswamy posted in linux-india-help:
>> Hello! I was just wondering, is there a general method of "uninstalling"
>> packages compiled and installed with make;make install, or do we just
>> delete the installed files manually?
>
>You need to uninstall the files manually. I usually do it this way:
>
>If I am installing fubar-1.0, then
>
>./configure --prefix=/opt/fubar-1.0
>make
>make install
>
>Then uninstalling is as easy as rm -rf /opt/fubar-1.0.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show checkinstall
Package: checkinstall
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 132
Maintainer: Matt Hope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Architecture: all
Version: 1.5.3-3
Depends: installwatch (>> 0.6), file
Filename: pool/main/c/checkinstall/checkinstall_1.5.3-3_all.deb
Size: 34844
MD5sum: b17d889ace143394d8c8adb82b8c652c
Description: installation tracker
CheckInstall keeps track of all the files created or
modified by your installation script ("make install"
"make install_modules", "setup", etc), builds a
standard binary package and installs it in your
system giving you the ability to uninstall it with your
distribution's standard package management utilities.
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