Re: Quick Question about new releases of gnome-libs and control-center

[Cory Watson <gphat cafes net>]

Just to alert our readers here, there seems to be no problem simply doing a
'make install' when coming from 1.01 sources.

At 03:59 PM 3/10/99 -0500, Gleef wrote:
>
>On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Cory Watson wrote:
>> Does the installation of these require the removal of the previous
>> versions?  Or simply a make install?
>
>In general, just a make install is sufficient.  If you keep doing that
>with control-center or gnome-core, however, you sometimes get left with
>artifacts of the old versions.  Basically, if the location of a
>application, applet or capplet changes within the directory tree between
>versions, you find the old and the new versions both there.
>
>The directories in question are
>  ${prefix}/share/applets
>  ${prefix}/share/control-center
>  ${prefix}/share/gnome/apps
>
>You can either prune these directories of old entries manually, or just
>delete them before you do a make install.  WARNING: Deleting these
>directories will delete entries installed by other packages.  For example
>most GNOME programs put an entry in gnome/apps, a few put things in
>applets or control-center.
>
>Best of Luck,
>-Gleef
>
>
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Cory Watson
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