How to uninstall?
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How to uninstall?
Ok so I know how to remove an application that was installed via deb package manager and via the synaptic manager but how do I remove an application that was "installed" by means of compiling??
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Re: How to uninstall?
This is so good it should be on the wiki!cisforcojo wrote:A suggestion?
Install 'checkinstall'What 'checkinstall' does is make a .deb file from the source code and then install from that. SO, when you want to remove it, you can use Synaptic and not worry about all this hassle. If you install from source code, if you don't still have the source code folder you installed from, your chances are pretty slim of actually finding and erasing everything it installed.Code: Select all
sudo apt-get install checkinstall
Using checkinstall, you'll NEVER want to type 'make install' again, instead you'd type 'sudo checkinstall'
An install from source will look like this:Code: Select all
./configure make sudo checkinstall
It works like magic!
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Re: How to uninstall?
The latest version of checkinstall 1.6.1 will fail to mkdir on Elyssa - you can fix this bug with:
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sudo checkinstall --fstrans=no