On Fri, 24 Apr 2015 06:41:27 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >On Thu, 23 Apr 2015 22:56:56 +0300, Jesse Jaara wrote: >>What you need to do is to create a custom package for the specific >>version of libvpx that doesn't conflict with the one from repo, so you >>can have both the new version for repo packages and the old version >>for whatever reason > >Yes, I was thinking of simply installing the new package and copying >/usr/lib/libvpx.so.1.3.0 >from a backup and add the links >/usr/lib/libvpx.so.1 >/usr/lib/libvpx.so.1.3 >manually, instead of building a package for the old version. > >However, I can't do this for >/usr/lib/libvpx.so >and the bins, that perhaps aren't needed from the old package. It works :). I wonder if there is a good reason to move the outdated lib and links from /usr/lib/ to /usr/local/lib? I prefer to have them in the same location. $ ls -hAl /usr/lib/libvpx* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Apr 18 12:41 /usr/lib/libvpx.so -> libvpx.so.2.0.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Apr 24 07:51 /usr/lib/libvpx.so.1 -> /lib/libvpx.so.1.3.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Apr 24 07:51 /usr/lib/libvpx.so.1.3 -> /lib/libvpx.so.1.3.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.7M Dec 7 2013 /usr/lib/libvpx.so.1.3.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Apr 18 12:41 /usr/lib/libvpx.so.2 -> libvpx.so.2.0.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Apr 18 12:41 /usr/lib/libvpx.so.2.0 -> libvpx.so.2.0.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2.0M Apr 18 12:41 /usr/lib/libvpx.so.2.0.0 Regards, Ralf