From: Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com>
Subject: Re: Installation Question
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 20:33:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3vfonxi7n.fsf@defun.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1597.1071171490.399.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
exits funnel <exitsfunnel@yahoo.com> writes:
> The result seems to be that the new version is resting in
> /usr/local/bin but /usr/bin which is first in my path so when I try
> to run emacs I'm still getting the old one. I realize I could swap
> the order of the directories in my path but I'm wondering what the
> conventional solution is?
That's what I do.
> Should I just remove the version in /usr/local/bin?
If you have tested that the new version works to your satisfaction,
you could just remove the old version -- 'rpm -e emacs'.
> What's the difference between /usr/local/bin and /usr/bin anyway?
/usr/local/bin is for executables installed locally, and /usr/bin for
executables supplied by the distribution, see hier(7).
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2003-12-11 19:33 ` Jesper Harder [this message]
2003-12-11 19:37 ` Installation Question Tim McNamara
2003-12-11 20:01 ` Dan Anderson
2003-12-11 20:02 ` Martin Stemplinger
2012-09-03 8:00 Installation question Thomas S. Dye
2012-09-03 9:04 ` Jambunathan K
2012-09-03 17:39 ` Thomas S. Dye
2012-09-14 6:23 ` Bastien
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2003-12-11 18:35 Installation Question exits funnel
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