Removing an installed program

[SelbyGlenn]

Hi there,

I've installed a program using the make install command. I now want to remove it. Other than just deleting the directories it creates, how do I remove the program? I am running RH7.3

Thanks in advance for any help.



Glenn
BEng MCSE CCA

 

[sleipnir214]

If you installed it from source, you're going to have to remove the files from the install directories by hand.

One trick that I use (but that won't help you in this case) is to use the "tee" command when installing software from source. I can then save the output of the "make install" command to a file (as well as show it to the screen), so I can know where make put everything.

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[danielhozac]

Note that programs that creates their [tt]Makefile[/tt]s by using [tt]automake[/tt] often have an [tt]uninstall[/tt] target, which means that if you still have the source, you could run [tt]make uninstall[/tt]

//Daniel