How to uninstall gtsam library

Question

I have installed gtsam 4 library from : https://bitbucket.org/gtborg/gtsam.git and since I am facing troubles with compilation I want to uninstall it and link to a local version. The problem is that make uninstall does not exist. Is there a way to remove it or at least make the local version be used instead of it. In CmakeLists.txt I have include_directories and link_directories pointing to the local version but still the gtsam which is installed is the one that is used.

I tried make -n install but the make prints about 700 lines which is difficult to follow and reverse what happened.

I found install_manifest.txt file in build directory. As I read here it contains all the files to be installed. However. I noticed that most of the files are .h and some are .cmake I do not know if just deleting those files will fix the problem or is going to mess it up.

Answer 1

This answer which is not the top one did the trick, it suggested to remove the files specified in the install_manifest.txt file using the following command :

cat install_manifest.txt | xargs echo sudo rm | sh

However, it has to be noted that in the comments, it is said it can be dangerous if the install_manifest had important files, so it is essential to have a look what is written there.