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SamTheMan

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Registered: 2006-11-15

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compiled somethign by source by accident, will pacman overwr

Hi, when i first started using archlinux (3 days ago) i compiled wifi-radar 0.9.7 from source, not realizing it was in the community repo. so obviously pacman does not detect it as installed. If i install it from pacman, will pacman just overwrite what i compiled? or how does that work? Thanks

Dusty

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From: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Registered: 2004-01-18

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Re: compiled somethign by source by accident, will pacman overwr

It depends where your program was compiled and installed to. It usually goes to /usr/local, in which case the files will not be overwritten and your best bet is to run a make uninstall script if one exists.

Dusty

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T-Dawg

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From: Charlotte, NC

Registered: 2005-01-29

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Re: compiled somethign by source by accident, will pacman overwr

otherwise run pacman -S and if complains about files existing in the filesystem use the force switch, -f.

stonecrest

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From: Boulder

Registered: 2005-01-22

Posts: 1,190

Re: compiled somethign by source by accident, will pacman overwr

And if you want to compile something in the future, don't do it yourself! Learn abs + makepkg (or aur's pkgbuilds + makepkg), it handles dependencies and installs through pacman.

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