Re: AfterStep for two users?
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Mikko_H=E4nninen?= (Mikko.Hanninen@iki.fi)
Wed, 5 Jan 2000 17:13:01 +0200
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Iwant Afterstep <iwantafterstep@hotmail.com> wrote on Wed, 05 Jan 2000:
> The version in /usr/X11R6/share/afterstep seems to remain, even after
> an rpm installation. I guess I could do rm -r /usr/X11R6/share/afterstep,
> but I don't dare do this until I know that I won't be causing even more
> trouble by doing so.
A good solution in this kind of situations is not to use rm at all,
but mv. Eg. (in /usr/X11R6/share/) mv afterstep afterstep.bak
The old directory won't get in the way, but you can restore it later
if you find you need it. The only trick here is finding all the
files/directories you need to rename, since if you install the
application/program again, it might overwrite any of the old files
that you've not renamed.
For afterstep, to completely start from scratch, I guess you should
do:
mv /usr/X11R6/share/afterstep /usr/X11R6/share/afterstep.bak
mv /home/(yourusername)/GNUstep /home/(yourusername)/GNUstep.bak
and also remember to rename the afterstep binary, which is probably
in somewhere like /usr/X11R6/bin/afterstep
The only drawback with this method of "removing" software is that you
need the disk space for it, but with modern day disk sizes that's not
usually a problem...
Hope this helps,
Mikko
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