[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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