oh dear install weirdness.

[Net Llama!]

On 07/09/03 20:43, Shadoe wrote:

> Okay im having a bit of confusion.
> previously whenever i used the install script everything was installing 
> in /usr/local/*
> now ive noticed everything being installed in /usr/X11R6 now i have 2 of 
> everything.
> the bins are in both /usr/X11R6/bin and /usr/local/bin
> the themes and so on are in both places etc etc.
> when i startx (with xfce4-session in my .xinitrc) it apparently starts 
> the wrong panel that only sees a portion of the panel icons and apps. it 
> leaves out ones such as the system load monitor and the mixer. I dont 
> know how this happened and am a bit confused as to how to go about 
> fixing it. Has this happened to anyone else? and if so.. any clues how 
> to remedy it? Of course one of the installations has to go but im not 
> sure which. :/
> 
> Thanks,
> Michelle (all the weird stuff happens to me) :(
> 


The quick solution is to adjust your $PATH so that the path to the desired 
version gets called first.  Not sure what the permanent solution is, other 
than to manually remove the version that you don't want.  Thankfully, this 
hasn't happened to me at all, but i use (S)RPMs.

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