Re: Installing new tarball over old?

[H <agents-FcZObrvlYduBUy7/sJONFg@public.gmane.org>]

On May 19, 2023 8:43:51 PM EDT, H <agents-FcZObrvlYduBUy7/sJONFg@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>On May 19, 2023 3:34:24 AM EDT, ThomasH <therch-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>If you have the access rights, just delete the old installation. I 
>>personally prefer side-by-side installations so I can switch between
>>them 
>>(at least for some time).
>>
>>On Wednesday, May 17, 2023 at 10:52:15 PM UTC+2 H wrote:
>>
>>> On 05/17/2023 01:28 AM, ThomasH wrote:
>>>
>>> As there are so many possibilities to install some files on a
>system,
>>
>>> depending on questions like whether you want to make a system-wide
>or
>>user 
>>> installation etc., I think it is impossible to give a general
>answer.
>>If 
>>> you are the only user on the system I would leave the existing
>>system-wide 
>>> (I presume) 2.19.2 installation alone, to not mess with the CentOS
>>package 
>>> management, unpack the 3.1.2 tarball in a suitable path under my
>HOME
>>and 
>>> link to the binaries from `~/bin` which is on my PATH.
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, May 16, 2023 at 8:56:53 PM UTC+2 H wrote:
>>>
>>>> I found I have pandoc 2.19.2 installed on my CentOS 7 system,
>>installed 
>>>> as a tarball. The latest version is 3.1.2. 
>>>>
>>>> Do I need to uninstall the old version before unpacking the most
>>recent 
>>>> tarball or can I simply install over the old version and any old
>>"cruft" 
>>>> will be removed during installation? 
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google
>>Groups 
>>> "pandoc-discuss" group.
>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it,
>>send an 
>>> email to pandoc-discus...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org
>>> To view this discussion on the web visit 
>>>
>>https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/0670a3f2-69f7-4a91-b6b5-145511c273ebn%40googlegroups.com
>>
>>>
>><https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/0670a3f2-69f7-4a91-b6b5-145511c273ebn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>
>>> .
>>>
>>> Well, that begs the question: how to uninstall pandoc from a system,
>
>>> regardless of whether it is installed system-wide or for an
>>individual 
>>> user? My installation of 2.19.2 was not done using yum (in which
>case
>>I 
>>> could simply have used yum to remove it) but installed as a tarball 
>>> downloaded from the pandoc github repository.
>>>
>>> If I could uninstall the current, old version, I could then install
>>the 
>>> current version. How do you update your pandoc installation on your 
>>> computer when a new release becomes available?
>>>
>
>I have the access rights but how do I find all the files that need to
>be deleted?

Oh, maybe I should just open the tarball, see which files it contains and delete them from the installation? Or is there a simpler way?

-- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/3FA2FEE1-20E9-40BA-B6C1-A39F49EE2EB1%40meddatainc.com.