> Now how do I completely uninstall it after I've built it? From the makefile, it looks like each file either is named or is in a directory named something with "playonlinx" or "PlayOnLinux" as a substring, so that's what we'd need to get rid of.
First lets get rid of our clone of the repository.
$ cd path/to/wherever/you/cloned/the/repository
$ rm -rf POL-POM-4/
'rm' means 'remove'. The '-rf' is necessary to remove directories.
Next cd into your root (top-level) directory
$ cd /
and search for all files and directories containing "playonlinux" or
"PlayOnLinux"
$ sudo find -iname "*playonlinux*"
'sudo' is to avoid getting getting messages of the form "find: *: Permission
denied". 'find' is the command we are running. '-iname' says to search
filenames and directory names ignoring case ('-name' without the 'i' would make
it case-sensitive). "*playonlinux*" is the string we're looking for. The '*'
before and after 'playonlinux' means that anything can come before or after
'playonlinux' in the name, as long as 'playonlinux' is in there somewhere. The
output should be a bunch of file names and locations.
In order to easily delete all of these at once, we're going to turn the whole
list of them into a variable: '$(sudo find -iname "*playonlinux*"). To see what
this looks like, run
$ echo $(sudo find -iname "*playonlinux*")
You should see the same files and directories as before, but printed all on one
line. Finally, we will remove them all with
$ sudo rm -rf $(sudo find -iname "*playonlinux*")
Please copy/pase that line exactly so that you don't accidentally remove
anything else.
Now run
$ sudo find -iname "*playonlinux*"
again and you'll see that the files are all gone.
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