Installing newest version of Seamonkey, uninstall old first?

[sandlynx]

I'm running Slackware 13.0 and want to upgrade to the newest version of SeaMonkey. I currently have SeaMonkey 1.1.17 and want to upgrade to seamonkey-2.0.7.tar.bz2.
Do I have to first uninstall the old version before installing the newest version?

[Freston]

You can put both versions side by side.

You'll find the directory /usr/lib/seamonkey is a symlink to the directory /usr/lib/seamonkey-version. So you put the new version next to the old one, change the symlinks pointing toward it and decide later if you want to remove the old version.

[sandlynx]

Thanks,
How do you change a symlink? There's a lot of this stuff I've never done before (obviously)

[Freston]

Thanks,
How do you change a symlink? There's a lot of this stuff I've never done before (obviously)

There's a first time for everything

It needs to be done in two places. The symlink to the directory and the symlink to the binary.

first put the whole seamonkey-newversion in /usr/lib/

# DIRECTORY
# Delete the symlink
rm /usr/lib/seamonkey

# create symlink to new version
ln -s /usr/lib/seamonkey-newversion /usr/lib/seamonkey

# BINARY
# Delete the symlink
rm /usr/bin/seamonkey

# create symlink to new version
ln -s /usr/lib/seamonkey-newversion/seamonkey /usr/bin/seamonkey

[sandlynx]

Thanks,
I've learned more on this forum in the last month than I have on any other forum in the last year. I appreciate it, since I don't have the time nor the bucks to go to college to learn this.

[Mudgen]

You can skip deleting the existing slinks by using "ln -sf". It will overwrite them.

[Freston]

You can skip deleting the existing slinks by using "ln -sf". It will overwrite them.

Thanks!

I've learned more on this forum in the last month than I have on any other forum in the last year.

That's good to hear

Well, as you can see, I learn from this site every day. Like you, I don't have time to go to college, but you can learn from just participating on a forum like this. Nobody knows everything, but everyone knows something

[keikun2004]

And if you want to go more in deep, check the manuals for coreutils and bash.
Just a friendly tip (that's how I learned ).

[sandlynx]

Thanks to all of you. It's a good thing I didn't rush on installilng SeaMonkey, versiion 2.0.7 since I just saw that there's a newer version out, 2.0.8.

[sandlynx]

keikin2004
I will be checking on coreutils and bash.