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voidmain:
Ok, this is a semi-FAQ. Several people have asked how to uninstall something that was installed from a source package (make;make install). As you know, some source packages have an "uninstall" target in their Makefile, but most do not. Here is a utility that appears to solve this problem. In fact it can also create a Slackware, Debian, or RPM package after it compiles a source package.

http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/

P.S. I haven't actually used this yet but it looks promising. Also, hopefully this isn't old news.

beltorak0:
It seems to work as promised.  I will definately be using this in the future.  Thanks for the post.

pkd_lives:
Now if this sounds daft then let me know. But IF you can get a good uninstall from source, surely this would negate the need for rpm deb, et al. Or does installing from source not perform dependancy checks, or some other critical function that makes linux so much better for programme installation.

TheQuirk:

quote:Originally posted by Linux Frank:
Now if this sounds daft then let me know. But IF you can get a good uninstall from source, surely this would negate the need for rpm deb, et al. Or does installing from source not perform dependancy checks, or some other critical function that makes linux so much better for programme installation.
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You can't do rpm -qa. Heh.   ;)

TheQuirk:
Yiu can't check what version of software you have, etc. Also, think of compiling everything on some p100 when you can just get a precompiled binary without waiting for 20 minutes for some small piece of software to compile. Sure, it'll be a bit slower to run, but I'm pretty sure you wouldn't notice the difference.

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