CheckInstall: easily remove the manually installed

Compiling applications is always annoying when you’re used to your nice binary distribution but if you want the greatest and/or latest, it’s just something you have to live with.

The problem is that plenty of installer scripts don’t have their own uninstall routines, making them twice as hard to remove as they were to install. Thankfully, there is an application called CheckInstall which, in short, replaces the final line of installing something and redirects the build process to create a proper package for your system.

This allows you to uninstall it using your every-day package manager. It’s very nice.

Read more about it at Go2Linux.org