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Comment: Re:In place upgrades still unsupported? (Score 1) 133

by Nimey (#43761461) Attached to: Linux Mint 15 'Olivia' Release Candidate Is Out

That's actually still simple to deal with if you prepare right.

What I do with unpackaged s/w is manage it with GNU Stow. I've got a directory /usr/local/stow, and if I want to compile foo v2.05 I'll extract its source, say "./configure --prefix=/usr/local/stow/foo-2.05 && sudo make install", then "cd /usr/local/stow" and "sudo stow foo-2.05". Now I've got the program installed into the stow folder but with symlinks to /usr/local/bin and elsewhere in the /usr/local hierarchy.

You have to use a separate partition mounted to /usr/local to make sure this doesn't get blown away by a distro's installer, of course.

Comment: Re:In place upgrades still unsupported? (Score 1) 133

by Nimey (#43758943) Attached to: Linux Mint 15 'Olivia' Release Candidate Is Out

Logically we should keep copies of each copy of each copy, then. :roll:

Seriously, though, you should have more than one backup /anyway/ given how quick, cheap and easy it is these days. Thank Hastur I don't have to use 40-odd 1.44MB floppies to back up a hard drive anymore like I did in the mid '90s.

Comment: Re:In place upgrades still unsupported? (Score 1) 133

by Nimey (#43758499) Attached to: Linux Mint 15 'Olivia' Release Candidate Is Out

Already got backups? Jolly good, then the shortcut would be to say:
sudo dpkg --get-selections > selections
to save your package selections, and then when you're reinstalled & copied your data back, say
sudo dpkg --set-selections and then
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -u dselect-upgrade

I'm not 100% sold on this idea, having been spoiled by Ubuntu and Debian supporting in-place upgrades, but it does have the advantage of avoiding breakage if the package maintainers didn't consider your particular edge case of dependencies or whatever.

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