How do I uninstall a program that I compiled?

[s3a]

How do I uninstall a program that I compiled? I'm asking because it seems as if I "halfway" installed a program called backintime. On a previous installation of Lenny, I got it working right with the simple ./configure make sudo make install but this time, something went wrong. I see backintime in the menu but the program doesn't launch and when I installed it (or after - I can't remember) it said:

deniz@debian:~$ cd Desktop/backintime-0.9.22
deniz@debian:~/Desktop/backintime-0.9.22$ ./configure
Common: --common
GNOME: --gnome
KDE4: --no-kde4
All OK. Now run:
make
sudo make install
deniz@debian:~/Desktop/backintime-0.9.22$ make
msgfmt -o po/zh_CN.mo po/zh_CN.po
/bin/bash: msgfmt: command not found
make: *** [po/zh_CN.mo] Error 127
deniz@debian:~/Desktop/backintime-0.9.22$

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!

[penpen]

If you still have the folder you extracted the source code into, you should be able to run the following to uninstall it (based on the configure script which was generated):

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make uninstall

This doesn't work all the time (like if no such script exists), but I've found it to work most of the time.

[acimmarusti]

This, generally, does it

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make clean
sudo make uninstall


[Soul Singin']

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deniz@debian:~/Desktop/backintime-0.9.22$ make
msgfmt -o po/zh_CN.mo po/zh_CN.po
/bin/bash: msgfmt: command not found
make: *** [po/zh_CN.mo] Error 127
deniz@debian:~/Desktop/backintime-0.9.22$

Given what you posted, it looks like the make failed. So long as you didn't run the make install command, then nothing was installed.

More importantly, you should the avoid the make install routine. I recommend building DEB packages from Debianized source, but if that's not available, you can build DEBs with dh_make.


EDIT: Looks like you're in luck. You can build backintime from Sid source It's a great exercise and will only take a few minutes.

Add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:

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deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid main

Then run (as root):

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apt-get update
apt-get install fakeroot
apt-get build-dep backintime

Then create a directory for the build in your normal user's home directory. As normal user, run:

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mkdir backintime-src
cd backintime-src
apt-get source backintime
cd backintime-0.9.20/
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc

The build goes pretty quick. Once it's finished you'll find the DEBS in your backintime-src directory and you can install them (as root) with:

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dpkg -i backintime-common_0.9.20-1_all.deb backintime-gnome_0.9.20-1_all.deb

Note that the KDE4 interface will not work on Debian Lenny (for obvious reasons).

If you do not have all of the required dependencies installed, you can resolve them by chasing the dpkg -i command with:

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apt-get -f install

It looks like a pretty cool package. Thanks for the tip!

Have fun!
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[s3a]

That all sounds good for installing it but my problem is how do I uninstall it? I know it's already installed because I see it in my menu on Applications-->System Tools!

Thanks!

[Soul Singin']

That all sounds good for installing it but my problem is how do I uninstall it? I know it's already installed because I see it in my menu on Applications-->System Tools!

And that's exactly why you should NEVER use the make install routine.

For what it's worth, penpen already gave you the answer:

If you still have the folder you extracted the source code into, you should be able to run the following to uninstall it (based on the configure script which was generated):

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make uninstall

This doesn't work all the time (like if no such script exists), but I've found it to work most of the time.

If it doesn't work, then you'll have to sift through the contents of the Makefile.template file to figure out where everything was installed and then you'll have to manually remove them all.

Have fun!
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