- uninstall and PATH question
- Posted by Ben on March 5th, 2004
Hi all,
When I installed RH 8, an rpm for httpd-2.0.40 was installed with it.
Then I installed httpd-2.0.43 by compiling the souce code. After that
I tried to uninstall the initial rpm but it was not allowed due to
dependencies it had with other programs. Is it possible to change the
dependency links from initial installation to my new installation so
that I can get rid of httpd-2.0.40? Remember- my initial installation
is rpm-based and the new installation is not rpm-based.
Another problem is about the directories on the PATH. "apachectl"
binary from httpd-2.0.40 is already on the PATH, which is /usr/sbin.
My new installation of httpd-2.0.43 is on /usr/local/httpd-2.0.43.
Hence, the new "apachectl" is on /usr/local/httpd-2.0.43/bin. I put
this on the PATH environment variable too. Now when I type
"apachectl", which one gets executed? Is it the first one on the PATH?
Yeah, this is just a trivial question that's confusing me...
Thanks for ur time!
Ben
- Posted by Chris F.A. Johnson on March 5th, 2004
On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 at 13:05 GMT, Ben wrote:
........
Yes.
You can use "type apachectl" at the prompt to find out which will
be executed.
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- Posted by Steve Ackman on March 6th, 2004
<followup set to comp.os.linux,comp>
On 5 Mar 2004 05:05:36 -0800, Ben <crescent_au@yahoo.com> wrote:
This doesn't work with all tarballs, but you could
try compiling the source using rpm, then simply use the
upgrade option.
# rpm -ta httpd-2.0.43.tar.gz
will create both source and binary rpms. Check the
man page in case you want only one. Then, do
# rpm -Uvh <full path to>/httpd-2.0.43.rpm
where <full path to> will be something like
/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386, unless you used the
--target <platform> option, which will have put it
in the <platform> directory instead of i386.
'man rpm' for more options.
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