[linux-audio-user] Re: Gnome Wave Cleaner

[David Cournapeau]

On 8/12/05, Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
> 
> > Yes.  I thought that seemed odd.  Thanks for verifying.
> > ***What's the correct way to un-install them now?***
> 
> go back into the source code directory you built+installed them from.
> type:
> 
>         make uninstall
> 
> you must not have re-run configure with different options since doing
> the last make install.
> 
> note that in the case of the ultimate screw up (e.g. with JACK), you can
> still use this method. suppose you mistakenly did this:
> 
>         (unpack source tarball)
>         cd srcdir
>         ./configure
>         make
>         make install
>         (remember that you mean to use --prefix=/usr)
>         ./configure --prefix=/usr
>         make
>         make install
>         (remember that you shouldn't mix tarballs and packages)
> 
> looks bad now - you have two versions of the software, one under /usr,
> one under /usr/local.
> 
> its ok, just do this:
> 
>         cd srcdir
>         ./configure
>         make uninstall
>         ./configure --prefix
>         make uninstall
> 
> and its all cleaned up.
> 
> --p "no sir, never had to do that, no sir, never, no sir"

An advice I would add: do not install libraries from source code by
yourself (ie without your package manager knowing it), because it will
cause many problems later, if you do not know exactly what you are
doing.

If you really want to try some new versions from source, you should
use something like checkinstall, which builds a rpm or a .deb from
your sources.

http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/

The big advantage of this method is that your package manager knows
about what you installed, and where, thus making the uninstall part a
non problem.