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Making Applications Installed From Source Uninstallable

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Making Applications Installed From Source Uninstallable

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Chu Yeow Cheah
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Feb. 04, 07 ·
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# Install checkinstall and auto-apt if they aren't already installed.
sudo apt-get install checkinstall auto-apt


auto-apt run ./configure
make
sudo checkinstall # instead of "make install"

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