[CentOS] how to uninstall

John R Pierce pierce at hogranch.com
Thu Feb 28 05:55:47 UTC 2008


scaglietti amore wrote:
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> hello guys
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> i have centos5.1, and my subject is :
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> when i install a package without the rpm tool cause its not rpm 
> package like configure , make , make install
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> how can i uninstall it later ?

if there's an 'uninstall' target in the Makefile, then...

    cd projectdirectory   (where you built it originally)
    make uninstall

or, find out what 'make install' did (usually by examining the Makefile 
in the project directory), and manually undo it. 



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