[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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