Uninstalling programs

[Afflictedd2]

Hi everyone,

I installed valgrind-3.3.1/ but had valgrind-2.2.0 installed in my system. When I write on the shell valgrind --version I still get the version 2.2.0. Probably because it is still installed but, I don't know how to uninstall programs in linux, without a package manager. How can I uninstall it from command line?

Thanks,

Ed.

[devils casper]

Which Linux distro are you using? How did you install newer version?

[Afflictedd2]

I am using CentOS 4.2

I installed using the README instructions

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/bin --without-mpi
make
make install

[daark.child]

I'm sure the prefix is supposed to be /usr/local and not /usr/local/bin when you run ./configure. If you use --prefix=/usr/local, then depending on how your system is setup, the newer version should be found and used first. Alternatively you can use the full path name e.g. /usr/local/bin/valgrind.

[Afflictedd2]

Thanks a bunch daark.child! that works great!

I'm sure the prefix is supposed to be /usr/local and not /usr/local/bin

Ah that explains, why it installed in /usr/local/bin/bin =D.

[Afflictedd2]

Now I'm stuck with another problem though.. how do I uninstall valgrind from /usr/local/bin/bin =\. Someone told me to simply do a "make uninstall" but I have to make sure that the make file does not erase something other than the /usr/local/bin/bin directory. Anyone know how to solve this?

[daark.child]

"make uninstall" should uninstall only files it installed. Alternatively you should be able to just delete /usr/local/bin/bin (it should be the only directory in /usr/local/bin because directories don't belong in the */bin directories).