[LAU] Freewheeling, keyboard

[Grammostola Rosea]

James Stone wrote:
> Grammostola Rosea wrote:
>   
>> Ok, solved it. It seems there was an other version installed from 
>> source. When I start fweelin from terminal, I think that one was started 
>> (isn't that strange? I have it more often though... ).
>> When I start it from menu, it seems to work fine.
>> Thanks for support!
>>
>>     
>
> Not that strange - hand-installed from source usually puts the files in 
> /usr/local/ whereas system installs go to /usr/. when you type fweelin 
> on command line, the search path has /usr/local before /usr. You should 
> always uninstall hand-installed files first before installing to /usr. 
> (I've made this mistake many times before - can lead to very strange and 
> difficult to diagnose bugs).
>
>
>   
Thanks for the tip. Someone told me, when installing from source or 
aptitude, the latest will overwrite  the older one. But this isn't the 
case when one is installed in /usr/local (source) and the other in /usr/ 
(aptitude)
mmhh ok, good lesson.

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