OK Dumb question regarding uninstalling libs

Net Llama! netllama
Mon May 17 11:45:43 PDT 2004


On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, James McDonald wrote:
> OK let's say that I had glib-2.0 installed in the default location of
> /usr it's the default mandrake 9.0 rpm install.
>
> Then I go and download the latest src.tar.gz version and ./configure it
> with the defaults and install the new version in /usr/local
>
> How do I un-install the old version in /usr without breaking all the
> dependences and have the apps that where looking in /usr/* for the
> libraries now reference /usr/local....

This should be a nonissue, as the dynamic linker (ldd) takes care of this
stuff.


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