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:
- the archive file, if you retrieved your data from the archive
as a
.zip file, or the like;
- the
.dtx and .ins files, if you chose not
to install them with the documentation; and
- the
.aux, .log, .idx, etc.,
from building the documentation.
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.
This question on the Web: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=inst-tidy