How do you completely remove something?

[jmadero]

I wanted to know how to completely remove something....where nothing is left. I installed Avant using ./configure (from source obviously) and something isn't working right so I would like to completely remove everything that is Avant related and start from scratch....I am so used to apt-get remove that I don't even know how to remove when you do it from ./configure. Thanks all


jmadero

[Dapper Dan]

That directory you were in when you did ./configure, make, make install? Go back into it and do:

sudo make uninstall

Post back if it worked or not. If not, we'll try something else...

[jmadero]

I'm not sure how...but that fixed my avant window manager....I went into the directory and did the sudo make uninstall, it removed something but when I went to applications Avant was still there, I clicked on it and the problems that I was having with it (small icons, sometimes didn't show, etc...) were fixed....any reason why this would be?

[Cabhan]

The only thing I can think of is if you had somehow installed Avant twice, and it had conflicting config files or something, and the uninstall removed one set.

In general, to remove something completely you run "make uninstall" (as root; removes installed files), "make clean" (removes local compiled files), and then check /etc/ and ~/ for left over config files.