Uninstall Git completely on Ubuntu?

Question

I installed Git on Ubuntu Lucid (latest) manually as following.

cd ~/tmp

wget http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.7.0.6.tar.gz

tar -xzvf git-1.7.0.6.tar.gz
cd git-1.7.0.6.tar.gz
./configure
sudo make
sudo make install

Now, how can I completely uninstall it?

Answer 1

Use installwatch (aka checkinstall) to see what it actually installed, then delete the files. Note, this requires running make install again, just under installwatch.

Check, first to make sure an uninstall target does not exist (e.g try make uninstall). make help might also be of use.

Unless you really need a feature in a newer version of something that your distro packages (or unless they simply don't package it), its generally a good idea to install stuff using the package manager, for just this reason.

Answer 2

I solved this with the following step:

sudo find /usr/local -depth -iname 'git*' -exec rm -rf {} \;

That deleted all the git related files. Then used the apt-get to install git-core.

The reason behind this trouble is:

• I installed git-1.7.xxx via source. But libcurl was not installed before, so that it couldn't clone the git/github repo via http:// protocol http://github.com/blog/642-smart-http-support