Uninstalling Vim compiled from source

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00:00 Uninstalling Vim Compiled From Source
00:21 Accepted Answer Score 19
00:40 Answer 2 Score 2
00:49 Thank you

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ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 19

To uninstall vim, you can just download again the sources and run in the source directory :

make VIMRUNTIMEDIR=/usr/share/vim/vim73
sudo make uninstall

replacing /usr/share/vim/vim73 by the one you used for installation.

ANSWER 2

Score 2

You have to run make distclean before make VIMRUNTIMEDIR=...

cd ~/tmp
hub clone vim/vim
cd vim
make distclean <---
make VIMRUNTIMEDIR=/usr/local/share/vim/vim80
sudo make uninstall