How to Install Software from Source Code… and Remove it Afterwards

1. How do you uninstall a program installed with make install?
2. How do I uninstall after install?
3. How do I uninstall compiled programs?
4. What is the difference between installing software from source code and binary?
5. How do I install a compiled package in Linux?
6. How do you delete a compiled program in Linux?
7. How uninstall compiled PHP?
8. How do I uninstall Python from source?
9. How uninstall Opencv Linux?
10. What make install does?
11. How do I uninstall ninja?
12. How do you remove a watchman?

How do you uninstall a program installed with make install?

This can also help you remove a package previously installed using make install. You simply force install your built package over the make installed one and then uninstall it. Prefer yum to rpm if you can. Prefer apt to dpkg where you can.

How do I uninstall after install?

If there is no uninstall procedure:

1. open install_manifest.txt (created by #make install )
2. remove all the directories/files listed.
3. remove any remaining files you missed: #xargs rm < install_manifest.txt.
4. remove any hidden directories/files: $rm -rf ~/.packagename.

How do I uninstall compiled programs?

Usually it works by deleting the folder where you have installed the software. "make uninstall" works only if you have not deleted the source folder from wich you compiled the software. If you deleted it, just recompile with exact parameters in ./configure and then use "make uninstall".

What is the difference between installing software from source code and binary?

Source package include a tarball of the application's source code, and instructions on building it. When you install the package, it builds and compiles everything on-site, then installs. Binary packages have everything already built, and installing the package just takes everything out of it.

How do I install a compiled package in Linux?

For the most part you will do either:

1. Download a tarball (tar. gz or tar. bz2 file), which is a release of a specific version of the source code.
2. Extract the tarball with a command like tar zxvf myapp. tar. ...
3. cd into the directory created above.
4. run ./configure && make && sudo make install.

How do you delete a compiled program in Linux?

1 Answer

1. Re-run ./configure with the same options you originally passed to it and then run make uninstall . ...
2. Use find or locate to track down the relevant files (only really practicable for smaller programmes) and remove them manually.

How uninstall compiled PHP?

Install the package and uninstall it. configure with the same settings and build again before 'make uninstall'. if it fail, create /tmp/php and do 'make install DESTDIR=/tmp/php'. check it and remove the files by hand.

How do I uninstall Python from source?

You can do :

1. make clean removes any intermediate or output files from your source / build tree.
2. If you can, running make uninstall will work.
3. The last option is you have to manually uninstall it. Running make -n install.

How uninstall Opencv Linux?

How to completely uninstall opencv under ubuntu

1. 1. $ sudo make uninstall.
2. 2. $ cd ..
3. 3. $ sudo rm -r build.
4. 4. $ sudo rm -r /usr/local/include/opencv2 /usr/local/include/opencv /usr/include/opencv /usr/include/opencv2 /usr/local/share/opencv /usr/local/share/OpenCV /usr/share/opencv /usr/share/OpenCV /usr/local/bin/opencv* /usr/local/lib/libopencv*

What make install does?

When you do "make install", the make program takes the binaries from the previous step and copies them into some appropriate locations so that they can be accessed. Unlike on Windows, installation just requires copying some libraries and executables and there is no registry requirement as such.

How do I uninstall ninja?

Windows 8/Windows 8.1:

1. Open the Menu.
2. Click Search.
3. After that click Apps.
4. Then Control Panel.
5. Then as in Windows 7, click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
6. Find Quickstart. ninja, select it and click Uninstall.

How do you remove a watchman?

How to clear the Expo and React Native packager caches (Metro, Watchman, Haste)

1. Clear your Yarn or npm cache, depending on which you're using, with yarn cache clean or npm cache clean --force.
2. Run yarn or npm install to install your dependencies again.
3. Run watchman watch-del-all to clear Watchman's state.