[Tips][Linux]Désinstaller un programme

There are many ways for installing a program in linux, therefore there are many ways for uninstalling it:

1.- If you installed a program via repositories (syntapic, apt-get, aptitude...) you can uninstall it by typing sudo apt-get remove name_of_program or by selecting it in synpatic.

2.- In you installed it by downloading the deb package and tyiping dpkg -i name_of_package, you can uninstall it the same way as above.

3.- If you installed it compiling from the sources (./configure && make && sudo make install) it's harder. In some cases, you can uninstall it by typing sudo make uninstall in the source directory.
The best way is to install a program called checkinstall (it is on the repos). Then, you can do sudo checkinstall instead of sudo make install. Then the program will create a deb package and install it. Then you can uninstall it via apt-get, dpkg, synpatic, or whatever.

4.- If the program has a special way of installing it (games like quake, doom, neverwinter nights, non open-source programs, graphic drivers), they have a special way of uninstall it. You should read the manuals, readmes and documentation of the program.

instool is a small installation program that will install tar.gz packages and create uninstall information for later use. It can also read makefiles and create uninstall files for a make install operation.
Packages installed with instool can be uninstalled at any time.

CheckInstall project keeps track of all files installed by a "make install" or equivalent, creates a Slackware, RPM, or Debian package with those files, and adds it to the installed packages database, allowing for easy package removal or distrib