[GRLUG] Automatix update

[Michael Mol]

On 10/20/06, Topher <topher at wcsg.org> wrote:
> > It uses dpkg and apt for package management, so it would be like
> > installing Firefox manually, and then installing the Firefox package.
> >
> > As long as your manual installation put the binaries in /usr/local/*,
> > there should be no worries.  You can even choose which binaries to use
> > by modifitying your $PATH, or by writing out the full path to the opera
> > binary.
>
> This is stuff I installed with apt.  I put the opera source in my sources
> file and just did
> apt-get install opera

Ah.  In that case, yeah, it'll cause issues.  You can either not
bother with the Opera package in Automatix, or you can remove your
current package before installing the Opera package.  Either way
should be fine; your personal settings are of course stored in your
home directory.


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