[mythtv-users] Moving myth from /usr/local to /usr
Matt Doran
matt.doran at papercut.biz
Wed Jun 13 03:51:22 UTC 2007
Jon Boehm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using a home compiled version of .20-fixed. The Ubuntu package uses
> /usr and the make process for myth defaults to /usr/local. Right now I have
> two version of myth installed. Everything is behaving correctly but I would
> prefer to only have one version installed.
>
> The apt-get remove method sound dangerous because to will remove my config
> files and /etc/init.d/mythbackend. I would rather uninstall myth from
> /usr/local and reinstall it over the ubuntu packages in /usr. Any
> instruction for how to uninstall myth?
>
>
>
apt-get remove will not remove your config files or init scripts. It
will only do that if you use the "--purge" option.
I removed the Ubuntu packages to move to trunk using this technique.
All I had to do afterwards is change the path to mythbackend in the init
script.
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