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Hi Folks.
If i install a program with make and then want to remove it, can i just remove it from /usr/bin
The program is nzbget and doing "locate nzbget" only lists it in /usr/bin
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The answer is definitely a no on that one...there could be many other files associated with the program aside from just the binary (man pages, libraries, etc.) How did you install the program in the first place? If you used pacman, then you should use pacman -R to remove it...if you built it from source, you should see if they included an uninstall make function.
Last edited by elasticdog (2007-02-25 21:37:58)
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Hi
Thanks for the response. I didnt think that would be the case. I installed from source. Im not sure where it is actually installed too so thats the problem.
If there was an uninstall function it would be "make uninstall"? How would i find this out?
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what i do in this cases is to create the PKGBUILD and create the package. Then i install the package (it will say that there are some conflicts, so pacman -Uf <package>) and uninstall it after. Files gone.
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Open a console and make your way to the source directory and try "make uninstall" (might need root privilegies), if there is no uninstall option make should say something about not finding a 'uninstall' target.
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