Removing installations done by "make install"
Is there anyway of removing files installed by running the command make
install
?
The majority of packages that have make install
also provide a make uninstall
; this will usually remove package files, but not configuration files, similar to how apt-get remove
works, in contrast to apt-get purge
.
This, of course, only works properly if you keep the original package directory or reconfigure it using the same parameters for --prefix
and such.
On Ubuntu, it's actually pretty easy:
Install CheckInstall:
sudo aptitude install checkinstall
Run Make and let checkinstall create a .deb:
sudo make; sudo checkinstall
Uninstall the .deb and you're done.
Ubuntu Wiki
There is no automated way - that is why we have package managers.
You would have to manually go through the Makefile and find the files / directories that it installs and manually remove them.