How do I completely uninstall and old version of Redis?

Question

I'm trying to upgrade to redis version 2.6.13 and I want to remove all old versions on my ubuntu 12.04 system.

Solution

There is a make-command but no make-install-command. Because of this, I think it is enough to delete just the main-folder (where you executed the make-command) and every file you copied to any location on your filesystem according to the guide.

Comments

[prophecy201]

How did you installed it?

[gertvdijk]

Okay, so just to be clear, you installed from upstream source (using make)? Then it's hard to provide support here. Next time, make sure you install packages - those are easy to uninstall, upgrade, list, etc.

[prophecy201]

@gertvdijk, this is correct but not possible in some situations. i.e. when the package in the repo is too old or not given and in this case the quickstart guide suggest to compile the program manualy.

[gertvdijk]

@Ryan In that case: What is the correct way to completely remove an application?

[gertvdijk]

Good point. It's installed by hand - by copying files. So undoing that (rm) should be sufficient indeed.