bobtcowboy
02-12-2001, 12:51 AM
Hey all,
I just installed kvirc-2.1 from source.... my system came pre-installed with 2.0 but I figured I'd upgrade to see if I could do it. Well... what I ended up doing was this:
I compiled it from source (./configure, make kvirc, make install) as my user... typed in 'kvirc' in a kde2 run prompt and it pops up with kvirc 2.0 .... grrr. then I do a find files to find all instances of kvirc and realized/remembered that the other one (2.0) is still there.
so I did an su to root, deleted the folder called 'kvirc' in /usr/bin (it was that or /usr/share , I can't recall) and deleted the instance of 'kvirc' that was in my $PATH and then did a source compile as root into /bin , ran 'kvirc' (as root) to configure it, then did it again through kde2 (as my user)... it works, but I'm sure that this could have been done in an easier way....
basically I just wanted it to exist for all users (even though I'm the only user on my machine), but I wanted my user to have his own settings/configuration... so what about it... is there a better way? (I'm trying to avoid rpm in general)
Also... where do you guys usually keep old install files? I made a folder /backup and put em in there...
Thanks,
Bill
I just installed kvirc-2.1 from source.... my system came pre-installed with 2.0 but I figured I'd upgrade to see if I could do it. Well... what I ended up doing was this:
I compiled it from source (./configure, make kvirc, make install) as my user... typed in 'kvirc' in a kde2 run prompt and it pops up with kvirc 2.0 .... grrr. then I do a find files to find all instances of kvirc and realized/remembered that the other one (2.0) is still there.
so I did an su to root, deleted the folder called 'kvirc' in /usr/bin (it was that or /usr/share , I can't recall) and deleted the instance of 'kvirc' that was in my $PATH and then did a source compile as root into /bin , ran 'kvirc' (as root) to configure it, then did it again through kde2 (as my user)... it works, but I'm sure that this could have been done in an easier way....
basically I just wanted it to exist for all users (even though I'm the only user on my machine), but I wanted my user to have his own settings/configuration... so what about it... is there a better way? (I'm trying to avoid rpm in general)
Also... where do you guys usually keep old install files? I made a folder /backup and put em in there...
Thanks,
Bill