Re: How to uninstall a tar.gz package?

[Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>]

Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> writes:

>> I have auctex 11.84 installed via tar.gz package, and want now to have the
>> cvs version.
>>
>> Can anybody please suggest all the steps so to completely remove the old
>> one?  Or maybe simply installing the cvs version will override the old
>> installation?



tyler <tyler.smith@mail.mcgill.ca> writes:

> If you build from source, I'm pretty sure both 11.84 and the cvs version
> will install themselves to the same place under /usr/local/share, with
> most of the key files ending up in:
>
>   /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/ 
>
> That being the case, if you just go ahead and install the cvs version it
> will overwrite all the old files with the new versions. At least, that's
> what I did, and everything seems to be working fine.


Do you mean that you did what I want to do, i.e. installed the cvs version
*after* the source package, and in your experience all went well?  If you
experienced that directly, I can be quite confident and try it myself.  Please
let me know.

Thanks
Rodolfo