[mythtv-users] Do I need to remove 0.18 before Installing 0.19?

[Daniel A. Segel]

Kevin Bailey wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 09:44:44PM +0100, RoboJ1M wrote:
>   
>>    Hi,
>>    I have the 0.18 packages installed for Ubuntu breezy and I'm about to
>>    attempt compiling and installing the 0.19 source.
>>    Before I do "make install", should I uninstall the binary packages?
>>    And if I don't, will it break apt if I try to uninstall them after I
>>    have finished installing 0.19?
>>     
>
> What I'm doing is leaving 0.18 there (in the crazy hope
> that I can go back if I want) and installing 0.19 under
> /usr/local where it shouldn't collide with 0.18.
>
> Here's how:
>
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local ...
>
> I understand that they may share directories. Worst is
> that they'll share the SQL database. I'm going to look
> into replacing all occurences of mythconverg with
> mythconverg19. What would be better is if I could
> rename the current mythconverg database to something
> else. This way, when ubuntu picks up 19, it can
> continue using the same database.
>
> If I don't ruin both installs, I'll be fairly amazed. :)
>   

There were some schema changes to the database somewhere along the line 
that might preclude you going back to 0.18. I'm not sure when they 
occurred, or if they really would cause problems, but I wouldn't plan on 
running both at the same time.

Daniel