How to uninstall a make install

Many libraries can only be installed by building from source and installing using make install. Removing these installations can be quite painful.

In some rare cases, these Makefiles are written to support uninstall. In that case, you can go the same directory from where you did make install and try make uninstall. The only library I’ve seen supporting this is OpenCV.

For other installs which do not support uninstall, I highly recommend installing using checkinstall as described here. Tried with: Ubuntu 14.04