14 Jul
2018
14 Jul
'18
2:21 p.m.
On 07/14/2018 02:47 PM, Chris Caudle wrote:
On Sat, July 14, 2018 11:52 am, Tim wrote:
It should be automatic.
All user-built software is usually installed in /usr/local.
Most systems automatically look in /usr/local/bin FIRST
before /usr/bin when you type an un-pathed program name
This makes it very easy to run your own builds of software while
NOT disturbing the packaging system's installed versions in any way.
I routinely run my built versions of jack-1 or jack-2 installed in
/usr/local, all while my distro's jack-2 package installation sits
undisturbed in /usr. When I want to go back to the packaged version,
I simply uninstall my built version, that MUST be done, to go back.
This is how I helped debug jack-1 and jack-2 at the same time.
Cheers.
Tim.
Two versions of Jack can happily coexist - one in
/usr
and one in /usr/local.
Paul always warned strongly against that. How do you make sure the one in
usr is not used? The recommendation I had always heard when using
something like Fedora
which would try to remove a lot of packages if you removed the system
provided RPM was to just delete the files manually, without touching the
RPM database, then install the locally built version.
Maybe you found a method that works reliably, but in the past at least
even the jackd developers wouldn't trust leaving the distribution provided
files on the filesystem.