15 Jan
2010
15 Jan
'10
12:11 p.m.
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.
Any ideas or suggestions?
Thanks in advance,
Marco
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15 Jan
15 Jan
12:24 p.m.
On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 16:11 +0000, Marco Castorina wrote:
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.
Any ideas or suggestions?
Thanks in advance,
Marco
Most of the time, simply "make uninstall" in the directory you compiled
it in. Why are you installing from source? There's disadvantages with
that approach, especially if you're not sure what's happening.
3:08 p.m.
On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 16:11 +0000, Marco Castorina
wrote:
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.
Any ideas or suggestions?
Thanks in advance,
Marco
Most of the time, simply "make uninstall" in the directory you
compiled
it in. Why are you installing from source? There's disadvantages with
that approach, especially if you're not sure what's happening. 
12:25 p.m.
Hi,
El 01/15/2010 05:11 PM, Marco Castorina escribió:
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.
Any ideas or suggestions?
Usually the same scripts that you use for compilation and installation
have an argument to uninstall (something like "make(/scons/waf/...)
uninstall").
That is a good reason to keep the compilation directory, as you will
need to use the same path prefix options used during the installation...
Best regards,
Natanael.
Thanks in advance,
Marco
12:37 p.m.
Quoting Marco Castorina <marco.castorina(a)yahoo.it>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.
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