--On Thu, Jun 4, 1998 9:52 am -0400 Frag-A-Muffin
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>
> I don't know how true this statement is (the mix and match statement) cuz
> my system consists of tar.gz's and RPMs of libs and all my E stuff
> compiled and works fine.
How true?
It's complete rubbish.
I couldn't be bothered to reply at the time, but I saw and realised that..
You can certainly mix and match RPMs and self-installed stuff.
There are, of course, some caveats. But the caveats mainly apply in you
have RPMed and local versions *of the same library*. In this case, you
should decide which one you want, and remove the other - unless they're
different major version numbers, and you know what you're doing.
In general, use RPM (or dpkg, if you're on debian like me) whenever you can.
If you need to try something that has not yet been rpm'ed or deb'ed, then
install it yourself, but make sure it goes into /usr/local.
Then, when the RPM comes out, I recommend you install the RPM and remove
your hand done version - certainly, if an RPM of a newer version comes out.
To remove a hand done version, you may be able to go into the source
directory and type make uninstall. I'm pretty sure this works for rasters
libs (kudos raster!). If this doesn't work, then go into /usr/local/lib and
manually rm the library files.
In general, try to keep /usr/local/lib trimmed down to just those libraries
you've conciously installed by hand. You should be able to ls
/usr/local/lib and think "Yup, that's fine, I installed X because I needed
Y...".
Jules
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