Re: Problems with Swarm on LinuxPPC

[Alex Lancaster]

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>>>>> "DS" == Darren Schreiber <address@hidden> writes:

DS> Also, can I install Swarm-2.1.1 on another Linux user account and
DS> still have Swarm-2.0.1 run ok on my first account?

>>>>> "MD" == Marcus G Daniels <address@hidden> writes:

MD> It isn't a question of the account you use, it's a question of
MD> what prefix the binaries are configured.  For Linux-based systems,
MD> I usually install the last stable RPM release in /usr, and
MD> from-source build of a bleeding edge version somewhere else like
MD> /usr/local (actually I use /packages).

As Marcus points out RPMs are system-wide installations by default (in
fact you can't install one unless you are root, you can't have
per-user installations).  However, the Swarm RPMs are now relocatable.
This means that you can install packages in different places (by
default it's put in /usr).

$ rpm -Uvh --prefix /opt/swarm-x.y swarm-x.y-z.arch.rpm

would install the package in /opt.  Unfortunately you can't install
two packages with the same name (even if different versions) because
the RPM database likes to have a unique package name across the whole
system (it uses the package name a `key'), having said that you can
force an installation of a package that is already installed, using
`--force'.  I don't recommend it, it could leave your system in an
unstable state.  Caveat user.

Alex
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