adept and installing from source

[laissezfaire]

Hi:
In the last few days I was able to install a few programs (lyx and kile) from source. They seem to be working OK but now I want to remove these and install the precompiled deb packages. The problem is when I use adept, these programs appear to be not installed. So here is my questions:

1- When compiling, what I did was running these commands:
./configure
make
sudo make install
So am I missing a step so that these programs do not appear in Adept as installed?

2- How do I uninstall the programs now since I know I need to remove the existing versions before installing new ones?

[marble]

Re: adept and installing from source

If you compile from source like that, you're completely bypassing the package management, so none of the package management tools will know anything about the packages.

To uninstall those things, you should be able to do 'sudo make uninstall' in the source directory.

You can compile from source into a .deb file then use 'dpkg -i' to install it, this would let you uninstall with the regular tools, but that's a good bit more complicated.