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by Satish Vellanki-2 :: Rate this Message:

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On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Anirudh Ramachandran <pitbull.159@...
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> Wireshark 1.2.0 stable released on June 15th. I currently have
> 1.2.0pre1 which I compiled, built and installed from the source code.
> I want to upgrade to the latest version after removing the version I
> have currently. How do I do this?
>
> I use Ubuntu Jaunty.
>
> Anirudh R
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> Anirudh,
See if your source code installation has an uninstall target in its Makefile
You can run "make uninstall" from its source code directory
Or if you know the list of files it copied, you can simply delete them
Worse case, you can figure out the libraries and executable files its using
when you run it and remove them
Usually upgrades overwrite older versions, but it is good to remove old
version to avoid any issues

Hope this helps,
Satish Vellanki


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