Removing a program compiled from source

[sofasurfer]

I installed a program (safecopy) from a tar.gz file. There apears to be no 'uninstall' file for the program. If I use 'locate safecopy' will this find ALL files belonging to that program? Or only files with the word safecopy attached? I mean, when you install software does every assocciated file have the name of the program attached to it?

 

[moved from Software by spinynorman]

[tyme]

to uninstall something you compiled from source, you would have to go into the directory were you extracted and compiled the source originally and do:

make uninstall

as root.

 

if you no longer have the directory you originally compiled it in, just download the same version in source form, do the same ./configure line that you used original (i.e. ./configure --prefix=/usr) and then do the make uninstall command.