[LAU] [OT] Unistalling programs

[Peder Hedlund]

Quoting Marco Castorina <marco.castorina at yahoo.it>:

> Hi there,
>  maybe for many of you this is an easy task, but I still don't know
> a way of disinstalling programs installed by src (that is not using
> deb packages, as I'm on Ubuntu). Of course they don't appear
> in synaptic and, even looking  around the web, I didn't find any
> working solution.

I recommend using 'stow' when you install.

Compile with prefix=/opt/name-and-version (say /opt/ardour-3.0.1) and  
after installing run 'stow -d /opt -t /usr/local ardour-3.0.1' to  
create symlinks in /usr/local.

If you later decide the program is buggy as hell and want to remove it  
you run 'stow -D -d /opt -t /usr/local ardour-3.0.1 ; rm -rf  
/opt/ardour-3.0.1' to remove the symlinks and the program.