On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 09:43:14 -0400
Mark Gordon <mtg### [at] povrayorg> wrote:

> Feel free to uninstall the binary when the time comes.
> 
> To uninstall the binary:
> 
> rm -f /usr/local/bin/povray /usr/local/man/man1/povray.1
> rm -rf /usr/local/lib/povray-3.5 /usr/local/share/docs/povray-3.5
> 
> (Hopefully you haven't written any files to those directories.  If you
> have, you should just copy them somewhere else before nuking the
> directory)
> 
> I'm assuming Gentoo will install into /usr/bin, in which case leaving
> the old version won't make much of a difference (other than wasting a
> bit of disk space), assuming /usr/bin comes before /usr/local/bin in
> your path.
> 
> -Mark Gordon
> 
> On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 01:36:40 -0400, Wanderer On The Road wrote:
> 
> > Well is it? I mean it's been out already. And can I uninstall the
> > bianary version when the source is released and my source-based distro
> > (gentoo) picks it up and packages it?

I have an ebuild script for the binary package if anyone wants it ... I
attached it to the bugzilla entry for povray-3.5 ... or I could email it.

Now I'm off to start learning POVRAY!

Cheers.
Jonathan Kelly.

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