<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">On the flip side once a package is installed in /usr/local/ is supersedes a package in /usr, especially its supporting libraries. <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>As an example, when I first built my box I built lirc because the Ubuntu package did not have udp support. Now I'm stuck because the Ubuntu package is more advanced and I have no defined way to remove the /usr/local package. Please tell me I'm wrong and that removing an /usr/local package is simple.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thanks,</DIV><DIV>Jon</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jun 12, 2007, at 11:48 PM, Bill Williamson wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BR> <DIV><SPAN class="gmail_quote">On 6/13/07, <B class="gmail_sendername">Jon Boehm</B> <<A href="mailto:boehm100@comcast.net">boehm100@comcast.net</A>> wrote:</SPAN> <BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hi,<BR><BR>I'm using a home compiled version of .20-fixed. The Ubuntu package uses<BR>/usr and the make process for myth defaults to /usr/local. Right now I have <BR>two version of myth installed. Everything is behaving correctly but I would<BR>prefer to only have one version installed.<BR><BR>The apt-get remove method sound dangerous because to will remove my config<BR>files and /etc/init.d/mythbackend. I would rather uninstall myth from <BR>/usr/local and reinstall it over the ubuntu packages in /usr. Any<BR>instruction for how to uninstall myth?</BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>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.</DIV><BR> </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">mythtv-users mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>