How to uninstall a tar.gz package?

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Subject: How to uninstall a tar.gz package?
From: Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:31:13 +0000
Message-id: <[🔎] 878wrmqnfy.fsf@gmail.com>

I have auctex 11.84 installed via tar.gz package, and want now to have the cvs
version.

Can anybody please suggest all the steps so to completely remove the old one?
Or maybe simply installing the cvs version will override the old installation?

Thanks for any reply
Rodolfo

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