How to remove software installed from source, where "make" was not used?

Question

I download this package and following the instructions on the website i untared its package in /usr/local/share and used ./install command to install it.

now I need to remove it. Is there anyway to do that ? If it needs them I still have the installation files.

this is the website

possible duplicate of If I build a package from source how can I uninstall or remove completely? — Takkat, Apr 12 '13 at 07:12
i don't think their the same, my package des not have any make files so i can't use 'make unistall'. it jus says: make: *** No rule to make target `uninstall' — soroosh.strife, Apr 12 '13 at 07:15

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 12 '13 at 21:55

If there is no uninstall option you need to manually remove the files.

Most (if not all) of the files will be installed inside a directory (from the readme I would assume it is called ns-allinone-2.35) at the path you ran ./install. Simply use a rm -rf to remove that directory and it will be gone.

Now for 1 extra step: during installion either the installer added some links to ~./bashrc or you edited them in yourself. So do a (backup at the 2nd command):

cd ~
cp  .bashrc .bashrc_old
gedit ~/.bashrc

and have a look for anything related to ns-allinone-2.35 and remove it. Be careful; if you mess up it might be problematic. After editing you need to parse the changes:

source ~/.bashrc

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 12 '13 at 22:01

All you need to do is delete the ns-allinone-2.35 directory.

When you ran install from within that directory, it installed everything into the same directory.

The installer doesn't appear to make any changes to your ./bashrc file on it's own, but if you added any of the changes they recommend, then, of course, you will also need to undo those changes.

How to remove software installed from source, where "make" was not used?

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