15 Aug
2005
15 Aug
'05
7:37 a.m.
David Cournapeau wrote:
On 8/12/05, Paul Davis
<paul(a)linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
An advice I would add: do not install libraries from source code by
yourself (ie without your package manager knowing it), because it will
cause many problems later, if you do not know exactly what you are
doing.
If you really want to try some new versions from source, you should
use something like checkinstall, which builds a rpm or a .deb from
your sources.
http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/
The big advantage of this method is that your package manager knows
about what you installed, and where, thus making the uninstall part a
non problem.
Hi Now thats a nice link!
Bob
Yes. I
thought that seemed odd. Thanks for verifying.
***What's the correct way to un-install them now?***
go back into the source code directory you built+installed them from.
type:
make uninstall
you must not have re-run configure with different options since doing
the last make install.
note that in the case of the ultimate screw up (e.g. with JACK), you can
still use this method. suppose you mistakenly did this:
(unpack source tarball)
cd srcdir
./configure
make
make install
(remember that you mean to use --prefix=/usr)
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
make install
(remember that you shouldn't mix tarballs and packages)
looks bad now - you have two versions of the software, one under /usr,
one under /usr/local.
its ok, just do this:
cd srcdir
./configure
make uninstall
./configure --prefix
make uninstall
and its all cleaned up.
--p "no sir, never had to do that, no sir, never, no sir"