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I can run octave in the terminal by typing octave and then pressing Enter,but I can't remove octave.

I type sudo apt-get purge octave,but it say

Package 'octave' is not installed, so not removed.

I don't know why,can you guys help?

there is a question about how to completely uninstall software installed from source code,and there existed good answers to that problem.

But i also want to know why i can't uninstall by the command sudo apt-get purge octave.

I have read that question and i learned that i can do it by the command make uninstall,but i don't know where the octave uninstall makefile is.

I think the second answer here has solved my problem and can remove install software clean.

I installed octave from source code by typing ./configure && make && make install.

zhanchao
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If you installed using make install, you can remove by make uninstall.

The make clean and distclean command only clean out the source directories, but they don't remove installed files. Assuming you built octave from source using the defaults, you probably installed everything in /usr/local, so you can probably remove everything with the following command:

$ rm -rf /usr/local/bin/octave-****
$ rm -rf /usr/local/share/octave/****
$ rm -rf /usr/local/lib/octave-****
$ rm -rf /usr/local/libexec/octave/****

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Liso
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apt-get is a package system, meanwhile you building and installing Octave from source.

You can install octave with apt-get install octave or make a deb package from sources following this tutorial.

If you want to uninstall Octave in your situation, go to source directory and run make uninstall from there.

Tshilidzi Mudau
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Aleksandr Charkov
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