UK TeX FAQ -- question label inst-tidy

### 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.

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