[ardour-users] Refugee from Windoze/Cubase -drowning in Linux/Ardour

[Frode Haugsgjerd]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 07:41:45PM -0500, Jack O'Quin wrote:
> Also, it looks like there are two versions of JACK on your system,
> 0.99.0 and 0.99.36.  That is very bad and extremely confusing.  Be
> sure and get rid of one of them.  If you're mixing RPM packages with
> code built by hand, the hand-built packages probably went in
> /usr/local.  Try building them with --prefix=/usr, so they replace the
> packaged version.
> -- 
> 
In my opinion, this is not a smart ting to do. By overwriting files 
installed by a package, you mess up the package manager (RPM). 
Having a decent way to manage software, is one good reason for choosing 
Linux over windows.

-- 
Frode Haugsgjerd
Norway