On 2007-03-07 03:42-0700 Jerry wrote: > I just installed 5.7.2 whereas my previous installation was 5.5.3. > How do I get rid of the old versions of everything now that they > exist in directories alongside the new version? Or should I have > uninstalled the the old version before installing the new version? Or > should I just ignore the problem?
Hi Jerry: In general it is not a good idea to mix versions together with the same install-tree prefix. So specify unique install-tree prefixes (using the -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX cmake option) for each different version you want to keep. Without doubt, -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX is the most important cmake option, and you should use it every time you invoke cmake. Furthermore, suppose you have installed 5.7.2 in the past with the unique install-tree prefix /home/jerry/plplot-5.7.2_install. Now you may not recall the exact configuration you had for that install so that old install tree might be filled with plplot files that are irrelevant (or which may even interfere) with your new 5.7.2 install. Of course, one way to avoid this stale install file problem is to use a separate install tree prefix (e.g., /home/jerry/plplot-5.7.2_installa /home/jerry/plplot-5.7.2_installb /home/jerry/plplot-5.7.2_installb ...) for each separate PLplot-5.7.2 configure, build, and install that you do. Probably a more practical course when you are rebuilding and reinstalling a particular version of PLplot is simply to remove the whole install tree (e.g., with the rm -rf command) before each invocation of "make install". Such convenient wholesale removal is only possible because you used a unique install-tree prefix such as /home/jerry/plplot-5.7.2_install. (If you had used a generic install prefix such as "/usr/local", then normally there would be other files from non-PLplot installs that are mixed into that tree which you would not want to remove.) Of course, that still leaves the question of what to do about your current bad situation with various PLplot versions mixed together (possibly with non-PLplot files) into the same install tree. If you built and installed PLplot-5.5.3 using the old ./configure; make; make install trio of commands, then there is also a "make uninstall" command available to you. However, I would only use that in an emergency (such as this) since blindly removing files without reviewing them is considered to be dangerous. For modern PLplot, there is no "make uninstall" command for exactly this reason. Instead, there is a manifest of what was installed in install_manifest.txt. Once you have looked at that list and are satisfied that removing all those files will cause no harm, then you can conveniently go ahead with such removal with, e.g., rm `cat install_manifest.txt` Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the Yorick front-end to PLplot (yplot.sf.net); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Plplot-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-general
