Uninstalling Compiled App's, How?

[Koji]

O.K. Please don't cast stones as I'm not Linux saavy in the least! After installing an application by uncompressing the .tgz file, then ./configure, then make... how do I uninstall it so that all traces of the app are removed? I simply want to keep things clean and don't know if I can just delete a directory and consider a program removed in Linux?

Lame question, but c'mon...

Thanks,
Don

 

[pcunix]

That's the big advantage of tools like RPM that can do this all for you automagically.

What you need to do is track down what got installed and where. The make file will help you with that, but what you have to watch out for is whether or not the thing you are removing is also used by something else. If you are on a system that normally uases rpm, you can use that to find out if a file belongs to some other package: rpm -q -f /path/filename

If, as you imply a bove, everything is neatly contained in one directory that you know wasn't there before, yes, you can remove that (rm -rf /newdir). Has that removed all traces? Only examination of the make file can tell you for sure.
Tony Lawrence
SCO Unix/Linux Resources

http://pcunix.com

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