uninstalling installed software

Ok, it is an easy method to install apps on linux from the source using make file

My question is there a way to do it vice verse (uninstalling) in the terminal instead of me going through the directories and removing the data tree manually?

hope that made some sense

What distro?

Well, a lot depends on how it was installed; RPM's have a method of removing (rpm -e), source can be deinstalled by running make deinstall from the install dir.
Course, it really depends on how it was installed, and what it is.

Cheers.

cool, thanks for the tip on rpm's

what about files that i have ./configured, make, and make installed? or does that depend upon what it is too?

Those are source, which means you configured the makefile to meet your machine's specifications -- more or less -- and then ran make, which is a front end wrapper for *cc.

Basically, you compiled source to a binary program.

Go into that dir, type make deinstall, or make uninstall -- targets may vary depending on your version of make. Running a make clean, is always a good idea in my book as well. That should do the trick.
Cheers.

yeah, I usually do run make clean, in case I need to reinstall it somewhere else. Hmm, that is interesting. So I guess by deleting the directory this would not be able to be done. cool.

Thanks alot for your help daemonguy

No problemo.

Cheers.