CheckInstall
Unearthed by John Seymour

http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall-1.5.0-pak.tgz (Slack Pack)
http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall-1.5.0-1.i386.rpm (RPM)
http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall-en.html
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A file that I have found useful is a program called Checkinstall,
current version is 1.5. The url to the homepage is
http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall-en.html.

As you know, if you install a program from source code, to uninstall
you have to know every place on your system that the files were
placed. What checkinstall does is make a package file, for
Slackware, RPM, or Debian, and places it in your package directory
so you can do an almost automatic uninstall.

When you install a source you usually do:

   ./configure
   make
   make install

All you do to use checkinstall is add:

   checkinstall

and a script runs to automate the process of making and recording
the package file.

I have found this very useful.