removing compiled things?

[Al Gordon]

On 11/28/05, David Gonzalez Rivera <ubuntu at davidgonz.com> wrote:
> I have compiled thunderbird 1.6a1, but I did that on accident, I want to
> remove it now, i tried doing a 'make clean' and well i thought it would
> remove it, how can i remove compiled apps? (by compiled i mean "home
> made" compilation)

Well, you can check your Makefile, and see where "make install" puts
the binaries, then go and manually remove them.  You might even be
able to reinstall and see where they go.  Or, check your Makefile to
see if it has an uninstall (or similar) option.  You might also be
able to reinstall and then use the 'find' command to see which files
have been recently modified, and manually remove them.  There's lots
of ways.

Beacuse of this particular problem, it's a good idea not to do
"./configure; make; sudo make install" in Ubuntu (or Debian). 
Instead, if you need to install software from source in the future,
try "./configure; make; sudo checkinstall".  This way, you'll get a
.deb package that you can easily remove later using the same package
management tools that you use for stock Ubuntu binaries.

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  -- AL --