How to uninstall libraries (installed through compile) in Ubuntu?

Question

I tried installing libtiff 4.0.3 through using the commands:

./configure
make
make install

It installed fine. However, I recently found out that I got the versions wrong and so I need to install a new one with a different version. I'd like to how know to remove libtiff from my Ubuntu setup. Would it be the same as sudo apt-get remove [x] ? And how do I know what to put on x if I didn't install it through sudo apt-get install [x] command? Would appreciate some help. Thanks. :)

Answer 1

You can't use apt-get to remove something that wasn't installed as a package. Try running make uninstall. – Blender