Re: Installing new tarball over old?

["John Gabriele" <jgabriele-97jfqw80gc6171pxa8y+qA@public.gmane.org>]

On Fri, May 19, 2023, at 8:49 PM, H wrote:
> 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? 
>>>>>
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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?
>>>>
>>
>>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?
>

Sorry, I don't remember the last time I installed Pandoc from source.
Do you have cabal installed on your machine? If so, then I'm guessing
it's there because it was used to install Pandoc, per the pandoc install
instructions. Further, maybe cabal could likewise be used to uninstall
it.

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