On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Craig Jesson wrote:
> First I would like to thank Derek Cunningham and Carnell Washington Jr. for
> helping me with my previous BlackBox problem. Derek's advise was especially
> useful.
> Now, on to my current problem. I am currently running RedHat 6.2 using
> BlackBox 0.51.3.1 and I want to switch to BlackBox 0.61.1. I would like to
> get completely rid of BB 0.51.3.1 before installing BB 0.61.1. I tried to
> use make clean. Then I tried to use make distclean (like the BB docs say at
> themes.org) but the directories are still there. BB 0.51.3.1 still starts
> and runs. Am I using the make clean command wrong? What is the difference
> between make clean and make distclean? How should I go about getting rid of
> a previous version of BlackBox?
> Once again any help would be appreciated.
make clean and distclean are both for the blackbox source, not for
binaries already installed on your system. I suppose you could do a
make uninstall with the old source (dont know how well that would work),
but there really isnt a reason to. The new installation will overwrite
the old binary, and if you want to get rid of the old styles, remove them
from /usr/local/share/Blackbox. I personally have upgraded blackbox from
somewhere around 0.40.9 over a period of 2+ years without completely
wiping my old install. However, if you initially installed blackbox from
an rpm, you should remove it using the rpm command. The one thing you
might want to do is delete your old .blackboxrc; 0.6x.x uses some
different formatting and the file should be cleaner this way.
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Gregory J. Barlow http://barlow.ncssm.net
NCSSM 99 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NC State [EMAIL PROTECTED]
