Clean up after OpenCV installation

Question

I downloaded OpenCV 2.4.3 library and followed installation instructions. Installation went fine it was something like cmake-gui some configuration, then make and in the end sudo make install.

Everything went fine, but now I want to remove what can be removed and not interfere with the installation. There are:

i) downloaded .tar library -> this will be definitely removed

ii) extracted library -> I want to remove this but not sure if will interfere

iii) folder with compiled libraries (release) .. this is the largest and I want to remove this :)

I was left with only 500MB+. Before OpenCV installation I had 3.2GB.

Answer 1

• .tar - it is ok to go

• extracted lib - You can delete it, but sometimes it's good to look in source of library, to get the idea why CV_ASSERT generated an exception and killed Your program

• release - You can delete it, because copies of everything inside are in Your system default dirs, like /usr/local/lib. Although to leave an easy way to make an uninstall, I'd recommend to check if make clean or make clean-all won't relieve You from Your insufficient disk space burden.