ON 2004-07-16 19:39:54, ian white wrote: >I am trying to correct a situation in which I have multiple versions of >XFree86 on my sid Debian Linux distro with kernel v2.6.6 on a Pentium4 >machine. > >I built and installed XFree86 4.4 into /usr manually. apt refuses to >complete installation of v4.3, I assume, because it finds files belonging to >4.4. > >How do I uninstall it, so that I can start fresh with XFree86 4.3 from >Debian? There does not seem to be an "uninstall" target in the Makefile. > >Many thanks. > >Yours truly, >--Ian > I always upgrade XFree86 from sources, and the way I do it is by moving the old /usr/X11R6 to /usr/X11R6.bak and the old /etc/X11 to /etc/X11.bak, then installing the new version fresh. This way if something goes wrong I still have the original X11 files to revert back to. Also, I can look at config and appdefault files from the old version files if I need to tweak the new ones. Since you are using distro, I can't guarentee that doing this won't break something. As a matter of fact, it probably will break something. I haven't run a precompiled distro in years. I suggest you backup before you do anything... especially if this is a production or server critical machine. Cheers _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
