Re: uninstall

[David Eduardo Gómez Noguera <davidgn servidor unam mx>]

On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 18:13, Austin Isler wrote:
> If I installed something from source, how can I go about uninstalling it 
> and all the items that came with.
> 

thats why people came up with package managers.
So in short, it depends on how you installed it and if it has some way
to easily uninstall it

it is likely that if you did an installation with "make install", you
can uninstall it with "make uninstall", but it is not 100% sure that
this process will not delete something that you wouldnt want deleted
(though it is not very likely).

The other way is to manually delete each installed file, but you should
have had track of the files that it installed. So thats why installing
from source is not generally recomended.

If i wasnt sure i would get into trouble from running "make uninstall",
and i didnt need the space, I would leave it be.