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I have installed gtsam 4 library from : https://bitbucket.org/gtborg/gtsam.git and since I am facing troubles with compilation I want to uninstall it and link to a local version. The problem is that make uninstall does not exist. Is there a way to remove it or at least make the local version be used instead of it. In CmakeLists.txt I have include_directories and link_directories pointing to the local version but still the gtsam which is installed is the one that is used.

I tried make -n install but the make prints about 700 lines which is difficult to follow and reverse what happened.

I found install_manifest.txt file in build directory. As I read here it contains all the files to be installed. However. I noticed that most of the files are .h and some are .cmake I do not know if just deleting those files will fix the problem or is going to mess it up.

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  • General rules for me: try `make uninstall`. If it doesn't work, `make install`, copy-paste paths of installed files and delete them. If `make install` doesn't display which files it installed - see here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1506462/what-files-did-make-install-copy-and-where. – strangeqargo May 03 '16 at 12:01
  • I tried `make -n install` but the make prints about 700 lines which is difficult to follow and reverse what happened. And also, would deleting files be enough, I mean environment variables might then be pointing at directories that does not exist for instance – Abdallah Sobehy May 03 '16 at 12:24
  • I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because unrelated to programming. – usr1234567 May 03 '16 at 12:30
  • @AbdallahSobehy consider following chroot recipe. This way you can diff all changes made to a system, including env variables. You can chroot, git init, git add & commit, then make install and see every change made. Also, I doubt this library changed env. – strangeqargo May 03 '16 at 12:53
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    Thanks for your participation, however the install_manifest.txt file was the key to do it. you can check my answer @strangeqargo – Abdallah Sobehy May 03 '16 at 14:14
  • didn't you forgot to make an edit? – strangeqargo May 03 '16 at 14:42

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This answer which is not the top one did the trick, it suggested to remove the files specified in the install_manifest.txt file using the following command : 

cat install_manifest.txt | xargs echo sudo rm | sh

However, it has to be noted that in the comments, it is said it can be dangerous if the install_manifest had important files, so it is essential to have a look what is written there.

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