Uninstall Octave

Question

I just compiled Octave source downloaded from the GNU site as explained here . That is

./configure
make
make install

Is it possible to remove it?

Thanks

Answer 1

In the same directory where you ran make install , run make uninstall .

Both install and uninstall targets are targets mandated by GNU standards and will work with any GNU project. In addition, many programs using GNU autotools (all the ones where you run ./configure && make && make install ) will also have the uninstall target.