How to Remove software Installed from Source Code

[Husse]

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[nick]

I hav nstalld lots of softwaes fromsource code...i dont even remember what i hav installed...i want to remove them...they dont appear in synaptic..

I assume you still have the folders in your home directory?

If you know the name of the program you have installed, "cd program", then " sudo make uninstall"
and, if you want " make clean"

Nick

[nick]

Hi

I do not know of such a command, but "most" , not all could be in usr/local/bin

Try
cd /usr/local/bin
ls

There "might" be some in /usr/local/games

Nick

[scorp123]

they dont appear in synaptic..

Of course not. You installed them outside of Synaptic's control. *That* is precisely why people should install things via package managers

If you insist on compiling your own stuff (but why oh why??) then you should consider to use something like checkinstall which will create a deb package out of what you compiled. So instead of the usual

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./configure
make
make install

... you'd use:

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./configure
make
checkinstall 

... and that would then ask you a few typical questions about the package (all the usual infos you usually find in a package, e.g. who the author is, what the version is, a short description and so on) and then create it for you. I am not sure if it installs it automatically too .... Just watch the messages that scroll by. If it doesn't install them automatically then checkinstall should tell you where it did put the finished package. You can still install it via "sudo dpkg -i ...." from there.

[scorp123]

I would like to have a command which shows me a list of installd software from source...

This isn't Gentoo

[scorp123]

And here the "official" Debian-way to deal with source packages:

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-h ... ng.en.html

[Husse]

I believe it is

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[Husse]

I only see a kind of community - not a Mint one. But you are right in the sense that people can post links to youtube and such so I'll let the link be there