Non RPM software upgrades

[David Mangani]

Thanks for the information and the quick reply. I'm learning all the time. The 
problem I had with the HDD was that I assumed during installation that 
information was picked up, just as the CD, floppy etc were picked up. I 
didn't have to manually create those mount points. Still, as always, 
learning. 
	Would upgrading software loaded this way simply overwrite the older version, 
or should you delete the older version first?

Thanks again
Dave

On Wednesday 16 July 2003 06:55 pm, Cyber Source wrote
> uninstalling a compiled program is as simple as deleting the directory
> where it is. In Linux you always have to have a mount point for data,
> whether it be floppy, cd, hdd whatever
>
> On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 17:28, David Mangani wrote:
> > 	I installed Netscape 7 from CD ( I had laying around from windows and
> > noticed it had a linux version as well ). It was not in rpm format, I
> > think it was ./instal and then an installation wizard pretty much did the
> > rest. How would I now either remove this program or upgrade it to a newer
> > version since it wasn't installed with RPM. Is it very difficult to do?
> >
> > 	Secondly, I have been struggling to get RH9 to see my windows drive. (
> > It is on its own HDD ) I tried mounting it manually, edited the fstab
> > file, tried all different options, filesystem types vfat,dos,etc. NOTHING
> > worked. Kept getting no mount point defined. Anyways, googled mount point
> > found my answer in like 2 seconds ugggggg. All I had to do was mkdir
> > /win-c to match the entry I made in fstab. I have several books on RH and
> > nowhere was there a mention of having do mkdir to gain access to windows
> > or anyother file/system to be mounted. I guess sometimes the best lessons
> > are the ones we learn from missing obvious things.
> >
> > Dave.