Re: [LAU] [OT] Unistalling programs

From: Marco Castorina <marco.castorina@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Fri Jan 15 2010 - 21:08:38 EET

> On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 16:11 +0000, Marco Castorina wrote: > > Hi there, > > maybe for many of you this is an easy task, but I still don't know > > a way of disinstalling programs installed by src (that is not using > > deb packages, as I'm on Ubuntu). Of course they don't appear > > in synaptic and, even looking around the web, I didn't find any > > working solution. > > > > Any ideas or suggestions? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Marco > > > Most of the time, simply "make uninstall" in the directory you compiled > it in. Why are you installing from source? There's disadvantages with > that approach, especially if you're not sure what's happening. Thanks all for replies. I usually have to install from source because packages are not provided and I like to try new application. What I have to do is a little bit of cleaning before re-arranging my envinronment in a better way Target is making music, of course :-). Anyway, I think I will use Peter suggestion, so that I won't need to keep all the sources I compile from. Thanks again and have a nice week-end! Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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