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Based on our record, CheckInstall should be more popular than Porg. It has been mentiond 3 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Checkinstall to create deb or rpm package out of source installs which you can easily remove with your package manager again. (But this only keeps track of the installed files, doesn't do any dependency tracking). Source: over 2 years ago
There is also checkinstall which you run instead of make install. It creates a (simple) RPM package for you. You can remove that package with your package manager later on for easy uninstallation. Source: almost 3 years ago
Checkinstall is a rather popular way of dealing with self compiled packages. Source: about 3 years ago
I've used a tool called porg. [0] Hadn't heard of checkinstall but it seems similar but with integration into the distro's package manager. [0] https://porg.sourceforge.net/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
Mac uses some BSD derivative right? If you compiled it from source then "make uninstall" should work. Alternatively you can catch which files are installed by "make", via various other programs. For instance https://porg.sourceforge.net/ offers that, but it may be too advanced for this task. The "poor man's" approach is to just look which files were installed during make and then delete these files/directories... Source: over 1 year ago
GNU Make - GNU Make is a tool which controls the generation of executables and other non-source files of a program from the program's source files.
Advanced Package Tool - Apt (for Advanced Package Tool) is a set of core tools inside Debian.
CMake - CMake is an open-source, cross-platform family of tools designed to build, test and package software.
SCons - SCons is an Open Source software construction tool—that is, a next-generation build tool.
Pamac - Graphical Package Manager for Manjaro Linux (based on libalpm).
Yarn - Yarn is a package manager for your code.