Even if you have not kept your initial directory, if you run ./configure with the same options as before, you should be able to do a "make uninstall" afterwards. On Monday 16 December 2002 17:00, James Oakley wrote:
On Monday 16 December 2002 07:50 am, p p wrote:
To extend this issue. What if I have installed something from source files by doing:
./configure make and then as root make install.
usually installing scripts then install software on some default place (often /usr/local/bin) or somerhing similar.
Can these files be just deleted / shredded to uninstall program, or is there some other tasks to be completed also.
If you keep the source directory you installed it with, you can simply do a 'make uninstall'.
That generally only works with projects created with the auto* tools, where you have a ./configure step.
-- To err is human, but to forgive is beyond the scope of the Operating System... Αλέξανδρος Καρυπίδης Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλίας Τμήμα Μηχ/κών Η/Υ, Τηλεπικοινωνιών & Δικτύων Alexandros Karypidis University of Thessaly Computer & Communications Engineering dept.