Deleting the libraries from /usr/local/lib and re-installing worked, thanks.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 30/03/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael T. Dean</b> <<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">mtdean@thirdcontact.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;">On 03/30/2007 05:50 PM, R. G. Newbury wrote:<br>> Willy Boyd wrote:
<br>><br>>> Since others will be reading this, I would just like to personally<br>>> recommend *against* doing just that. There are good reasons for<br>>> "standards" like building into /usr/local, especially when mixing
<br>>> user-compiled code with pre-built packages. Unless you're very<br>>> careful (as I'm sure you are), you stand a greater chance of messing<br>>> up your environment when you start installing custom code over
<br>>> packaged binaries which normally like in /usr. Sure, a common mistake<br>>> is to have the old libs hanging around in /usr, but that's why you<br>>> remove the older myth packages as well and keep things separate. Once
<br>>> you start mixing things in the same bowl you get even more unexpected<br>>> results. /usr is for system packages, /usr/local is for user-compiled<br>>> binaries and libs.<br>>><br>> And further to the above, if you ensure that /usr/local is listed before
<br>> /usr in your PATH and /usr/local/lib before /usr/lib in ld.so.conf,<br>> the two versions can co-exist peacefully, to the extent that you can try<br>> the SVN version without touching your present installation. If the SVN
<br>> crashes, you need only delete /all usr/locla/bin/myth* and<br>> /usr/local/lib/libmyth* files to revert.<br><br>And then delete your database... And don't forget that all machines on<br>your network need to run the same revision of
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