xfce installer problem

[Olivier Fourdan]

On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 22:34 +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> By the way how is one supposed to install it over an existing
> installation?  How does one know what directory to install it to for
> example?  The default Slackware installation goes into /usr/bin
> whereas the default for the installer is /usr/local/bin.  If I tell
> the installer to put it in /usr/bin will that overwrite my existing
> installation (probably what I want)?

What you want is to install in /usr or in /usr/local, definitely not
in /usr/bin nor /usr/local/bin.

The prefix you specify should not include the "bin" directory.
Overwriting an existing installation should work.

HTH
Olivier.