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[N. Thompson]

With some programs you can also run "make uninstall" and that will remove the 
installed files, "make clean" will also removed the files that were created 
during the compile process.

On October 4, 2004 11:06 am, Jukka Y wrote:
> I have usually installed self-compiled programs without knowing how to
> uninstall them later. Today I found a tip how to install without "losing"
> them into a filesystem:
>
> ->make sure you have program called "checkinstall" present -> untar
> sourcefiles -> run "configure" and "make", but instead "make install" run
> "checkinstall".
>
> It creates an rpm-package into a  usr/src/packages/RPMS/i686, which can be
> installed/removed using typical graphical/commandline tools for rpm's.
>
> Blessings,
> Jukka
>
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