Sunday, September 30, 2012

How do you uninstall programs installed using make?



In case if you were wondering how one would go about uninstalling something that was installed with ./configure -> make -> make install. Makefiles don't seems to have a 'remove' section, and make does not seem to have a built in 'sudo make remove <program>' feature.

Your options are
  1. To search the application install folder for a file that may have a comprehensive list of binaries and its locations
  2. Run following command inside the installer directory
    • Su to root and then type #make uninstall
    • $sudo make uninstall

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