<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">> On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 16:11 +0000, Marco Castorina wrote:<br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div><div>> > Hi there,<br>> > maybe for many of you this is an easy task, but I still don't know<br>> > a way of disinstalling programs installed by src (that is not using<br>> > deb packages, as I'm on Ubuntu). Of course they don't appear<br>> > in synaptic and, even looking around the web, I didn't find any<br>> > working solution.<br>> > <br>> > Any ideas or suggestions?<br>> > <br>> > Thanks in advance,<br>>
> <br>> > Marco<br>> > <br>> Most of the time, simply "make uninstall" in the directory you compiled<br>> it in. Why are you installing from source? There's disadvantages with<br>> that approach, especially if you're
not sure what's happening.<br><br>Thanks all for replies. I usually have to install from source because packages<br>are not provided and I like to try new application. What I have to do<br>is a little bit of cleaning before re-arranging my envinronment in a better way<br>Target is making music, of course :-). Anyway, I think I will use Peter suggestion,<br>so that I won't need to keep all the sources I compile from.<br><br>Thanks again and have a nice week-end!<br></div></div>
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