[mythtv-users] Moving myth from /usr/local to /usr

Jon Boehm boehm100 at comcast.net
Wed Jun 13 04:58:52 UTC 2007


And it wont' try to remove dependancies like mysql and others?

Jon
On Jun 12, 2007, at 8:51 PM, Matt Doran wrote:

> 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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