Uninstalling a .tar.gz program

[MaGneTTo]

here's the deal, it's pretty easy when it comes to .rpms, just hit 'enter' and it uninstalls by it self, but, who about the .tar.gz programs ? How do i uninstall them ??

[Pras]

Go back into the directory where you extracted it. Usually, you can just do a 'make uninstall' to remove it. If that doesn't work, you could create a directory such as /home/username/program and when you run the configure script, just add the '--prefix=/home/username/program' option to set that directory as the path. Then do make && make install. This will install in that directory. Go in there and look at all the files and then search for them on your drive and remove them.

[Gaccm]

FYI, its not always 'make uninstall', i've seen 'make remove' a lot.