Howto remove ffmpeg custom build
Hi, I have downloaded and build ffmpeg version N-90022-g50945482a7 from git for testing purposes. Now I would like to remove this version and use the one provided by my distro again. How can I completely remove the custom build git version? Thank you.
Am 26.02.2018 um 13:30 schrieb ffmpeg@bechhold.de:
I have downloaded and build ffmpeg version N-90022-g50945482a7 from git for testing purposes.
Now I would like to remove this version and use the one provided by my distro again.
How can I completely remove the custom build git version?
normally "make uninstall" should work, in doubt repeat the same build with exact same params - if this not works you hopefully where smart enough to use a prefix out of /usr instead let "make install" spit around your system why not make a static build at all for "testing purposes" which leads in a single binary and skip "make install" completly? in short: guys learn how to build proper packages
2018-02-26 13:30 GMT+01:00 ffmpeg@bechhold.de <ffmpeg@bechhold.de>:
I have downloaded and build ffmpeg version N-90022-g50945482a7 from git for testing purposes.
Now I would like to remove this version and use the one provided by my distro again.
You can try "rm /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg". Note that the distro version of FFmpeg is known to have more bugs and less features, every-day FFmpeg gets the same quality measures as releases.
How can I completely remove the custom build git version?
I recommend to never install your custom build, by default a binary is linked that you can either run from the build directory or from your favorite location (from where you can easily remove it), I never install. "make uninstall" is supposed to remove the custom build binaries from the installation directory, note that I suspect the option is not well tested. Carl Eugen
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