Csanyi Pal wrote: > How can I know where come installed files after I did run: > ./configure && make && sudo -E make install > commands?
In addition to the fine comments made by others let me add that Debian has a very nice default for local installations. The default for configure is to install into /usr/local. The default on Debian is that /usr/local is sgid writable by group staff. $ ls -ld /usr/local drwxrwsr-x 14 root staff 4096 May 13 2011 /usr/local Therefore if you put yourself in the staff group then you can write to the files there as a non-root user. That is a much safer way to install software than using sudo. # adduser csanyipal staff ...log out... ...log back in again to have new group take effect... $ id | grep --color staff ...,50(staff),... Then the recipe would be (without the sudo): ./configure && make && make install This is significant because a buggy (or malicious) install script might try to overwrite something in /bin, /etc, or whatever. But if you are not root then it cannot do so. It will only have permission to access the /usr/local tree as group 'staff' and can't do much harm that way. This is a very nice half way position between installing as a single user in $HOME and installing as the root superuser affecting the core operating system. I highly recommend this over using sudo in this case. > this is important if I decide later to uninstall files installed from > sources. As previously suggested if it is installed with an automake generated Makefile then it will have an uninstall target as well. The combination of install and uninstall may be enough for you. Since Debian doesn't ship files in /usr/local/ you could remove *all* files there and know that you are only removing your own files and nothing from Debian. With the group staff configuration you should do this as yourself and not as root. If you are only installing one single thing there then all files will be associated with that one single thing. The complication is when you start to have multiple projects installed there and want to selectively remove one of them without removing everything. But again you could remove everything and then install again just what you want to keep from other projects. $ find /usr/local -type f -print | less # <--- review $ echo find /usr/local -type f -delete # <--- remove all files $ (cd project1 && make install) # <--- put this one back $ (cd project2 && make install) # <--- put this one back I haven't used it but others tell me that GNU Stow is useful for tracking locally installed projects in /usr/local. Bob
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