Thanks Alex, of course i should have said "untar" ;)

That is what i thought should work, I was just unsure. Thanks for the answer!


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On Saturday, July 13, 2019 2:32 PM, Alexander Burger <a...@software-lab.de> 
wrote:

> Hi Grant,
>
> > I'd like to switch to the rolling release edition, can you recommend the 
> > best
> > way to update? I assume i can just pull the archive, unzip, rebuild and
> > replace my picoLisp directory, and all the links will work.
>
> Yes. It is "untar" instead of "unzip", to be pedantic ;)
>
> In such cases I just download https://software-lab.de/picoLisp.tgz and then 
> do:
>
> $ tar xfz picoLisp.tgz && cd picoLisp/ && (cd src64; make)
>
> > but what if i have installed other libraries in that directory?
>
> This is no problem, as long as the file names do not conflict.
> Existing files not in the archive will not be touched.
>
> ☺/ A!ex
>
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