how to uninstall both unixodbc and freetds?

Question

I'm a newbie of using ubuntu, I have followed some guides how to install both unixodbc and freetds, and after I fail to make it work, I decide to uninstall both of them and start from scratch.

here is the command I follow from the guide:

wget <the link to download the file>
tar xvzf <the file>
cd <the file folder>
./configure
sudo make install

so how do I uninstall both unixodbc and freetds? I have try

sudo make uninstall

and

sudo make clean

it doesn't look like I remove the software, as the freetds.conf still in

/usr/local/etc

But I notice when I run

tsql -C

it said

tsql is not installed. 

since I didn't do the apt-get way, so it wasn't in the package list, so how do I find out what software/application I installed in the system?

in near future, if I want to install a software that I use 'wget' to download, how do I install that software?

Thank you very much, sorry for asking lots of questions!

Solution

First only to inform you, the command

sudo make clean

doesn't removes the installed files. It exists only, to clean your source folder.

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As you said

But I notice when I run

tsql -C

it said

tsql is not installed.

and there was no error after starting the command

sudo make uninstall

then the installed files are removed and you can simply remove the configuration file in /usr/local/etc via

sudo rm /usr/local/etc/freetds.conf

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An other possibility is, install the tool checkinstall via

sudo apt-get install checkinstall

Go into the source folder, in your question named as <the file folder> and start the build process, because you have started sudo make clean:

./configure
make

After that don't use sudo make install. Use

sudo checkinstall

checkinstall creates a deb package and installs the package on your system. Remove the package and all installed files after that via

sudo dpkg -r package_name

The correct command (package_name) is shown after checkinstall is finished.

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Use the checkinstall-way if you install software from source. In the most cases:

./configure
make
sudo checkinstall