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Installing

Tidying up after installation

There’s not usually a lot to do after you’ve completed the steps above — indeed, if you’re merely installed files direct from the archive, or whatever, there will be precisely nothing left, by way of debris.

Things you might care to clean up are:

A simple way of achieving all this is to download to a working directory that was created for the purpose, and then to delete that directory and all its contents after you’ve finished installing.

FAQ ID: Q-inst-tidy