Hi, On 29 Nov 1998, Graham Murray wrote:
I installed 5.3 as a new user. Since then I have updated a number of packages/programs. For some I have installed new RPMs from the Suse ftp site, but most I have downloaded in source tar.gz form and installed them. Is this going to cause any problems if I then upgrade to Suse 6.0? Considering that the RPM database will not show the version of the binary that I am actually using?
When you are installing packages from source, uninstall the RPM of this program first. If you update the system, YaST will only look in the RPM database and update all packages, which are older than the ones on the new CD. If you additionally use /usr/local as the location for you manual installed programs, chances are pretty good for an update. You might get into trouble regarding the library versions (libc5 <> glibc for example), you mileage may vary. I'd also recommend you to make a backup of your configuration files. Just to be on the safe side :) Bye, LenZ ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH <A HREF="mailto:grimmer@suse.de">mailto:grimmer@suse.de</A> Schanzaeckerstr. 10 <A HREF="http://www.suse.de/~grimmer"><A HREF="http://www.suse.de/~grimmer</A">http://www.suse.de/~grimmer</A</A>> 90443 Nuernberg, Germany - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e