Tag: make

Unzip the tar.gz by using the compression/decompression program in your system.

The steps to make and build:

./configure 
make
make install
//Remove package
Make unistall

To remove the package make install is used. Sometimes if the unistall step is not mentioned in the make file, the removal of the installed package would get difficult and can even lead to a broken system.

To prevent this, instead of installing the package using make install, we can use the checkinstall utility available in the ubuntu repo. It cretaed a .deb package for the program. This .deb package can be easily removed using any package manager like apt, synaptic, dpkg, aptitude.

sudo apt install checkinstall
sudo checkinstall

 

Example to remove package after installing it through checkinstall.

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 Done. The new package has been installed and saved to

 /home/ajinkyawavare/Downloads/scid_vs_pc-4.19/scid-vs-pc_4.19-1_amd64.deb

 You can remove it from your system anytime using: 

      dpkg -r scid-vs-pc

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