Where does "make altinstall" put stuff?

casevh casevh at gmail.com
Sun May 30 02:31:06 EDT 2010


On May 29, 11:06 pm, John Nagle <na... at animats.com> wrote:
>    I know that one is supposed to use "make altinstall" to install
> versions of Python that won't be the "primary" version.  But what
> directory names does it use for packages and other support files?
> Is this documented somewhere?
>
>    I want to make sure that no part of the existing Python installation
> on Fedora Core is overwritten by an "altinstall" of 2.6.
>
>                                 John Nagle

It's placed in the directory specified by --prefix. If --prefix is not
specified, /usr/local is used by default.

casevh



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