help.. "installing" programs

huffboy · 10-26-2003, 09:50 AM

hi! im using slackware 9...n im trying to install some programs.. however, how do i "overwrite" programs? does linux do this automatically?
for example.. i have gaim v6 pre-installed and want to install and replace it with gaim v7.1... how do i do that?
thanks!

david_ross · 10-26-2003, 10:00 AM

Some package managers like rpm have the ablity to upgrade packages but if you are installing from source then just delete the old version and install the new one - you can even have both if you want. Once installed you may want to put a symlink to the binary into the path so you can launch it without the full path - eg:
ln -s /usr/local/gaim/0.71/gaim /usr/local/bin/gaim

huffboy · 10-26-2003, 07:06 PM

oh.. thanks!