On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 10:53 am, David wrote: > second question: > > If I <apt-get remove netatalk> then re-install from tarball, what if any > precautions should I take regarding subsequent .deb installs when they > become available?
Can't help with the first question, but the second question I might be able to offer a small dose of $INSIGHT. You might want to purge the Debain package's configuration to avoid any spurious configuration problems: apt-get --purge remove <foo> Then the tarball install wont accidently pick up cruft left lying around from the package. My usual routine in these sort of cases is to purge the Debian package, then make sure all the tarball's configuration and binaries go into the /usr/local tree. This avoids conflicts if ever I re-install the package (and is POSIX-ly correct AFAIK). In fact it's handy to do it this way when Debian is running version X but the tarball is version X+Y. I install them both (with the tarball in /usr/local) then modify the init scripts, if appropriate, to grab whichever version I want to use :) Tested MySQL 4 that way for ages before there was a backport. Cheers, James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
