RE: [ILUG] upgrading newbie question

From: SP K (spk_ie at domain yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Mon 24 Jul 2000 - 10:21:10 IST


well ok but would this be ok for say something like
apache ? when u want to keep ure config files and
stuff ??
--- Paul Askins <paul.askins at domain analog.com> wrote: > If
you unpack your beta1 source again and do
> ./configure you might be able to
> do a 'make uninstall'. However, this option is not
> always available. If you
> know where the files were installed then you could
> remove them manually.
> Installing the new version should overwrite the
> previous one as long as the
> files are installed in the same location.
> Hope this helps, if I'm wrong could someone point
> out?
>
> Paul.
>
>
> On 24-Jul-00 SP K wrote:
> lo again, i cant find any howto or anything and the
> man page doesnt help me :/ , i have a piece of
> software here beta1 :its a tar.gz , i have
> downloaded
> a newer version of it and its also a tar.gz, how do
> i
> go about upgrading this ? do i just ./configure,
> make,
> and make install and it will upgrade automatically
> ?
> or do i need command line arguments to tell it to
> upgrade ? thanks in advance
>
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> Date: 24-Jul-00, 09:24:34
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