I often install packages from source with ./configure, make, make install. Sometimes I'm not happy with the software for whatever reason and I want to get rid of it. I don't actually know how to do this, till now I've always done make clean or make distclean if available, and then deleted the sources. But I installed something the other day that messed up something else, and uninstalling in this manner did not fix the problem. So how does one really fully undo what is done by ./configure, make, make install?
As far as I know there's no way to undo the installation. If you delete the sources afterwards the location of the files is totally unknown. You could look for them manually. I'm not an expert to but my way is checkinstall (which is available as rpm). As non-priviliged user you do the ./configure & make install. Then you su to root and checkinstall. This will ask you for the name of your installation and produces a rpm. As root you can install it from /usr/src/RPMS. And if it wasn't the right you just hace to do a rpm -e. Someone mentioned that checkinstall made rpms have disadvantages compared to "real" rpms. Just wanted you to know. As I said I'm not an expert but for me it works fine... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org