Re: Uninstalling again and ...

[francisco <frisco@blackant.net>]

On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Ben Goren wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 08:28:52PM +0200, Kaido wrote:
>
> >    I have been writing here  about uninstalling any programs and
> > you´ve wrote  me, that I can  uninstall something only if  I had
> > installed it from package. It means, I can´t uninstall anything,
> > what  is not  installed  from package  (that  is installed  from
> > source)?!
>
> That  depends on  the particular  program. Read the  documentation
> that  told  you  how  to   install  it;  it  should  also  include
> information on  how to remove  it. Often, a ``make  deinstall'' or
> ``make  uninstall'' will  work.  If  all else  fails, examine  the
> source to see what it did to install it (copy files, modify files,
> etc.) and  manually do  the reverse  (delete files,  modify files,
> etc.).

In the source directory that you ran 'make install' in, do:
make -n install

-n will show you the commands that would be run w/o actually running them
(refer to make(1) manpage).  That way you don't have to wade through the
makefile.

-f
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