Re: How to uninstall a tar.gz package?

[Paul Cartwright <ale@pcartwright.com>]

On Fri November 14 2008, Daniel Burrows wrote:
>   When you install a package from a .tar.gz file, you're installing
> software by hand and there isn't a general procedure -- you do it by
> unpacking the archive and following the instructions it contains.  For
> that reason, there is no general procedure for uninstalling it -- you
> have to reverse whatever you did in the installation steps, and I don't
> know what you did.
>
>   Of course, none of this would be an issue if you had just installed
> the Debian package. ;-)

you can also install & run checkinstall.
then you run:
make
checkinstall

and it installs it as a debian package, so apt/aptitude is aware of it..

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Paul Cartwright
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