How to uninstall a compiled gtk-splitter app

**Mega_Fauna** · January 28th, 2009

Hi,

How do I uninstall a compiled program which doesn't have it's own uninstaller script?

I installed gtk-splitter-2.2.1 by downloading the tar file and following the compile/install instructions included with it.

The program didn't work so I downloaded the rpm and converted to a deb with alien. That now won't install as it says a later version already exists.

What is my next step please?

**taurus** · January 28th, 2009

How did you install it from source? Did you do something like

Code:

./configure
make
sudo make install

**Mega_Fauna** · January 28th, 2009

Originally Posted by taurus

How did you install it from source? Did you do something like

Code:

./configure
make
sudo make install

Thanks for the rapid response.

Yes, The following is from the README file and it's exactly what I did:

Building a .deb package from source ]

$tar -xzvf gtk-splitter-2.2.1.tar.gz
$cd gtk-splitter-VERSION
$./configure
$./build_deb.sh

[ Installing the .deb package ]

As root:
$dpkg -i gtk-splitter-2.2.1-i386.deb

**cariboo** · January 28th, 2009

You should be able to find the package in Synaptic or at the command line type:

Code:

sudo apt-get purge gtk-splitter-2.2.1-i386.deb

Easy.

Jim

**Mega_Fauna** · January 28th, 2009

Originally Posted by cariboo907

You should be able to find the package in Synaptic or at the command line type:

Code:

sudo apt-get purge gtk-splitter-2.2.1-i386.deb

Easy.

Jim

Thanks for the code, however it doesn't uninstall for some reason, here is the Bash output:

Code:

sudo apt-get purge gtk-splitter-2.2.1-i386.deb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package gtk-splitter-2.2.1-i386.deb

**taurus** · January 28th, 2009

Couldn't you just uninstall it with dpkg?

Code:

sudo dpkg -r gtk-splitter

**Mega_Fauna** · January 28th, 2009

Originally Posted by taurus

Couldn't you just uninstall it with dpkg?

Code:

sudo dpkg -r gtk-splitter

Thanks! That worked and the new one is in.

I haven't used dpkg in at least a year, I've managed to use only .deb files and Synaptic, I know to use one or the other as they dpkg and Synaptic don't communicate, and so it hadn't occured to me to use it.

**bruce89** · January 28th, 2009

The package is called gtk-splitter, so sudo apt-get purge gtk-splitter would have worked.

Originally Posted by Mega_Fauna

I haven't used dpkg in at least a year, I've managed to use only .deb files and Synaptic, I know to use one or the other as they dpkg and Synaptic don't communicate, and so it hadn't occured to me to use it.

That's not quite the case. dpkg is the program that is called by apt (or a frontend like Synaptic) which depackages Debian packages (hence the name).