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Leonardo Petrucci
Asked: 2018-09-20 11:23:04 +0800 CST

Remove package installed with make

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I was testing out ways to get better gestures on my laptop, someone on reddit suggested this, I installed it following this guide.

It worked, but I don't really like it, so I want to now remove it. Except I have no idea how. I tried finding it in my installed packages with 

sudo apt list --installed | grep -i mtrack

But that didn't find anything. What should I do?

Edit: Going to the install folder and running sudo make uninstall results in this:

 /bin/bash ./libtool   --mode=uninstall rm -f '/usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/mtrack_drv.la'
uninstall make github

1 Answers

  1. In general, running make uninstall will work, but the uninstall target is not guraranteed to exist an ALL makefiles.

    By using the installwatch program (part of the checkinstall package), and reinstalling the software (sudo installwatch [options] make install, you can find out which files are altered, and manually delete them.

    DESCRIPTION

       installwatch is a program that is used in order to track the changes made while installing
   local software (i.e.  "make install"). It monitors the requested command, and  produces  a
   log  which  indicates  all  created and modified files. By default it outputs to syslog(3)
   using a priority of "LOG_USER | LOG_INFO". This may be overridden by the  use  of  the  -o
   flag. The log format is as follows:

   <return-value> <syscall-name> <argument> #<comment>

   Each  field  is  delimited  by  a "^I" character if logging to syslog(3), or by a tab when
   logging to a file.
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