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shoel   02-07-2003 at 05:56:23 AM

When I ran 'make uninstall' for a program I had installed it removed all of the files (i think, not really sure) but the empty directories are still there. Is this standard procedure?

When you install a program to say /usr/local all of the program files are installed somewhere within this directory, correct?

So techically if I didnt have a 'make uninstall' to run, I could just go into /usr/local and search for sub directories of the installed program and delete them and the program would be uninstalled right?

Thank you.

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poorboy   02-08-2003 at 02:57:12 AM
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That's pretty much it, yes. Some programs vary - they might install like /usr/local/program, or they might do it like /usr/local/bin/program-exe /usr/local/lib/program-lib and so on.

You can get an idea of what was done by looking at the install section of the Makefile.

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