I've got installwatch packaged in potato, under the "utils" section. It uses LD_PRELOAD (internally) to track file operations, and seems to do a pretty good job of following things.
On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 05:59:23PM -0700, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > What's the name of the software that helps you keep track of what's > getting installed in /usr/local when you install a non-Debianized > piece of software yourself? Something akin to the Win98 uninstall > utility. I believe you simply run it after doing a "make install", or > similar, and it scans the specified directories for any files that may > have been installed. It keeps a database of these so that you can > easily uninstall whatever it is. > > I know I've seen this discussed somewhere. If not here then certainly > on comp.os.linux.misc, but I can't for the life of me think of a > keyword to use in searching for it. So, I apologize in advance for > the repetition.
