From: Michael Martin-Smucker <mlmartin13 gmail com>
To: banshee-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [Banshee-List] Multiple Installs Of 1.5.5
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:54:05 -0400
I should also pass along some thanks to Chow for increasing my knowledge of things related to Linux, Banshee and packaging. I had no idea the packages had dropped the "-1" so long ago. Also, interesting to know where/how Ubuntu installs (and doesn't install) things by default. You packagers are just fountains of knowledge, aren't you? :)
Thank you for all of your suggestions, and especially for increasing my
personal knowledge of all things Linux.... Chow, you are correct - it
is usr/lib/ that gets updated, and usr/local/lib/ that gets launched. I
think this whole mess comes from having once installed the git master
at usr/local/lib. I will try the ./configure then sudo make uninstall
route and see what happens. I will check back in and let you know.
-Gregg
On 3/24/2010 8:37 AM, Chow Loong Jin wrote:
On Wednesday 24,March,2010 10:13 PM, Michael Martin-Smucker wrote:
I'm not exactly sure why you have two installations of Banshee, but I
know that Karmic called the Banshee package 'banshee' instead of
'banshee-1' for some reason. Not sure if it's also installed in a
different directory than it would be if you install from a PPA or build
from source, though. If so, that could lead to two installations of
Banshee. Try running:
banshee --version
and
banshee-1 --version
The banshee-1 package existed only in the PPA in the 1.0 beta days. 0.9X.Y or
something. It has since been completely replaced by the banshee package, and
/usr/bin/banshee made a symlink to /usr/bin/banshee-1, as done in Debian.
Considering pre-1.0 Banshee is now deprecated, I wonder why we even have this
banshee/banshee-1 distinction any more. It seems pointless to me.
The Ubuntu packages install files in /usr/bin and /usr/lib/banshee-1. There is
absolutely no Ubuntu package that installs things into /usr/local/ since the
very scripts which build the packages have safety precautions against that and
will bail out, causing the building process of the package to abort if anything
was really put into /usr/local.
It is most likely that you have had compiled Banshee in the past, and installed
things into /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib/banshee-1. To remove this, you
probably need to ./configure it again and run sudo make uninstall. This should
get rid of the /usr/local installation and let you use the /usr/ installation
just fine.
3. If you don't want to mess around with uninstalling things or
manually changing launchers, you could automate your current copy/paste
method by creating a symbolic link between the two Banshee directories.
If the installation in /usr/lib is updating, and the one in
/usr/local/lib isn't, delete the banshee folder in /usr/local/lib:
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/lib/banshee-1
and create a symbolic link in its place, that points at the Banshee
directory that updates:
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/banshee-1 /usr/local/lib/banshee-1
That's it! Just make sure you rm -rf the directory that isn't updating,
and when you ln -s, first list the directory that you're linking to (the
working one), then the directory you're creating (which should match the
one you just deleted).
I would rather you do NOT follow this approach. This is a workaround that will
likely lead to a very cluttered system.
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 11:35 PM, precipitous <precipitous media cox net<mailto:precipitous media cox net>> wrote:
There are two installations of version 1.5.5 (daily) on my Ubuntu Karmic
machine. One is at /usr/lib/banshee-1, and the other is at
/usr/local/lib/banshee-1. Whenever updates are installed, the copy at
/usr/local/lib automatically gets updated, yet no matter how I run the
application, the copy at /usr/local/lib is the one that starts up. I am
forced to let the updates install each day, then manually copy the
files to
/usr/local/lib/. What would be the best strategy for dealing with
this, so
that I end up with only one working copy that gets updated
automatically,
retains my settings, and runs from a simple command?
Am I right in saying that you really meant that the /usr/lib/ copy gets updated,
whereas the /usr/local/lib copy is the one which starts up? If this is the case,
then the problem is most likely because /usr/local/bin/banshee-1 is favoured
over /usr/bin/banshee-1 when looking for binaries within the PATH (this variable
is configured with /usr/local/bin before /usr/bin by default on most
distributions including Ubuntu), and /usr/local/bin/banshee-1 will look in
/usr/local/lib/banshee-1 for files.
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