Re: Installing new tarball over old?

[ThomasH <therch-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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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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