Re: Installing new tarball over old?

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

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? 
>>>
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>>
>> 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?
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I have the access rights but how do I find all the files that need to be deleted?

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