<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/8/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mario Limonciello</b> <<a href="mailto:mario.mailing@gmail.com">mario.mailing@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Michael, <br><br>Depending on where you installed the source to, <br>you probably have binaries sitting in /usr/local/bin for all ivtv binary apps. You probably have modules sitting in /lib/modules/2.6.17*.<br><br>Just as a personal pet peeve -
<br><br>If you ever do an installation from source that would normally use <span style="font-weight: bold;">make install,</span> use <span style="font-weight: bold;">checkinstall</span> instead. Checkinstall notates everywhere that a make file spits binaries across your system, and records this in the local apt installed database list. Basically, instead of
<br><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">sudo make install</span><br><br>do a <br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">sudo checkinstall</span><br><br>If you look in synaptic package manager, you will see the package you just installed listed there and very easily uninstallable. Also, if you ever do a checkinstall for an app that is already on the system, be sure to remove the packages for that app already there. A good example is gaim. When gaim
2.0 beta 4 got released, people posted checkinstall'd debs. If you didn't remove gaim, gaim-data and any plugins - things got very messy for lots of people.<br><br>Hope that helps, and you help to alleviate this pet peeve :)
<br><span class="sg"><br>Mario</span></blockquote><div><br><br>Mario,<br><br> Thank you for the information on uninstalling the ivtv drivers. I stumbled upon checkinstall awhile ago and absolutely love it. I tried it with the ivtv drivers, but ran into problems and it wouldn't installed. It said something about how the ivtv driver already exists in /usr/src/linux/<something> and because of that, it's not allowing me to install it. So, I just ran make install. ;-)
<br><br> Either way, since you put the other ivtv version up in the repo, I will give that a shot and not worry about the strange errors with checkinstall. Again, thank you very much!<br><br><br>Mike<br><br></div><br>
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