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uninstall a manually compiled package in unix

I have installed imagemagick by downloading and compiling the source.how to correctly uninstall the ImageMagick that was manually installed in order to installed rmagick gem. Is there something like "make uninstall".

Solution

  • There's no standard procedure.

    Sometimes makefiles provide an uninstall rule you can run in order to remove files installed by install.

    If Imagemagick doesn't provide any tool to uninstall itself you'll have to manually remove it by removing the files it installed.