Walter Dnes wrote:
>
> The subject says it all. How do I uninstall 2.4.4 to upgrade to
> 2.4.5 ? Or can I simply install over top ? Will installing over top
> leave ~/.fvwm alone ?
generally there are two sane options:
1) let the distro do the work - install a package for your distro, in
debian this works extremely well, in some other distros it might not be
such a good idea (distro here means basically ANY OS distribution you
are using, not linux only)
2) install the fvwm into /opt/fvwm-2.4.4, new one in /opt/fvwm-2.4.5
etc. then use stow to make it available:
stow -d /opt -t /usr/local --delete fvwm-2.4.4
stow -d /opt -t /usr/local fvwm-2.4.5
(I am not 100% sure about the delete, it probably does not need -d
etc.)
that way it is easy to upgrade the software that's not part of system
installation, you keep track of all your locally installed packages
(each has a separate directory under /opt), you can easily remove
packages (stow takes care of that), since stow uses links you always
know to which package a file under /usr/local belongs etc. check the
stow docs for more info.
I haven't tried this with fvwm but it should work.
erik
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Received on Fri Feb 15 2002 - 20:47:20 GMT