Hi I don't think make install creates an RPM. you can give "make dist clean" command in old tarball directory which should delete all the files. other way of to start your program is by giving the full path e.g. /usr/bin/mailfilter.
sanjay ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shridhar Daithankar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Linux India Help" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 3:20 PM Subject: Re: [LIH] updating a tarball install > On 30 Jan 2002 at 16:21, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote: > > > I have been using mailfilter 0.2.4 for the last few months. I had > > downloaded and built from the tarball. I now wanted to upgrade and since > > an rpm was available, I downloaded that and did an rpm -ivh. > > > > The problem I am facing is that the tarball (0.2.4) had got installed into > > /usr/local/bin/ whereas the rpm put the executable in /usr/bin. Now when I > > run mailfilter, it still executes the old 0.2.4 version as is seen from > > the log. As both /usr/local/bin and /usr/bin are in the path, I renamed > > the executable in /usr/local/bin to mailfilter.old. > > I would recommend you to uninstall the tarball by doing make uninstall if it > supports that. You need to supply same parameters to configure.. > > Best way is to use checkinstall. It creates an rpm when you do make install. > Very handy.. > > Shridhar > > _______________________________________________ > linux-india-help mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
