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Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm just now learning how to compile and install manually.  I
> installed makemkv-1.4.1 manually and now I found an ebuild so I'd like
> to install the latest version via the ebuild, but I get:
>
> # make uninstall
> make: *** No rule to make target `uninstall'.  Stop.
>
> The makefile doesn't mention uninstall.  Should I just install over
> the current installation via the ebuild?  Is there any way to do this
> cleanly?

When I've wanted to remove manually built packages... I've rerun
make install like this:

 make install >../<package>_install.log 2>&1

Then from the install log you can see what has been installed and
remove it by hand.