[mythtv-users] Do I need to remove 0.18 before Installing 0.19?

Kevin Bailey ke-tivo at retriever.dyndns.org
Tue Apr 11 22:29:57 UTC 2006


On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 10:04:37AM -0700, Kevin Bailey wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 09:44:44PM +0100, RoboJ1M wrote:
> > 
> >    Hi,
> >    I have the 0.18 packages installed for Ubuntu breezy and I'm about to
> >    attempt compiling and installing the 0.19 source.
> >    Before I do "make install", should I uninstall the binary packages?
> >    And if I don't, will it break apt if I try to uninstall them after I
> >    have finished installing 0.19?
> 
> What I'm doing is leaving 0.18 there (in the crazy hope
> that I can go back if I want) and installing 0.19 under
> /usr/local where it shouldn't collide with 0.18.
> 
> Here's how:
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local ...

Oops, and set the MYTHCONFDIR environment variable to
something besides $HOME/.mythtv

Then, all you have to do is change the name of the
database in mysql.txt, and they shouldn't conflict.


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