[mythtv-users] Moving myth from /usr/local to /usr
Bill Williamson
bill at bbqninja.com
Wed Jun 13 06:48:15 UTC 2007
On 6/13/07, Jon Boehm <boehm100 at comcast.net> 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?
In general this is a horrible idea. You should NOT move your hand-compiled
files into /usr unless you also package them. This is the entire reason
that /usr/local exists.
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