Friend,
I think you forgot an essential thing to do...
Refer to man rpm.
To upgrade you should typically use
rpm -Uvh <xyz>.rpm file
This will take care of the upgradations etc IF YOU INSTALLED THE OLDER
WEBMIN using an rpm.
Its always good to look at the man page before looking around elsewhere.
In case of a tarball, what you do basically is manually unpack the archive
and then do a make ; make install which is like doing the things manually
without keeping a track of which files go where.
If you then ave to reinstall, in most cases you manually need to remove
the concerned files from your filesystem. Which is painful.
VaibhaV
> My query is when one has to upgrade some thing is it required to remove
> (uninstall the earlier version)
> or installing above it would be fine .such conflicts can be taken care of
> when the new rpm is loaded over the earlierone ?
>
> How would it be in case of a tarball?
>
> Regards
> Neeraj Manral
>
>
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Bangalore
India
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