Re: Quick Question about new releases of gnome-libs and control-center

[Gleef <dzol virtual-yellow com>]

On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Cory Watson wrote:
> Does the installation of these require the removal of the previous
> versions?  Or simply a make install?

In general, just a make install is sufficient.  If you keep doing that
with control-center or gnome-core, however, you sometimes get left with
artifacts of the old versions.  Basically, if the location of a
application, applet or capplet changes within the directory tree between
versions, you find the old and the new versions both there.

The directories in question are
  ${prefix}/share/applets
  ${prefix}/share/control-center
  ${prefix}/share/gnome/apps

You can either prune these directories of old entries manually, or just
delete them before you do a make install.  WARNING: Deleting these
directories will delete entries installed by other packages.  For example
most GNOME programs put an entry in gnome/apps, a few put things in
applets or control-center.

Best of Luck,
-Gleef