Re: Uninstalling prev version of gnat

[Srini - <RasikaSrinivasan@gmail.com>]

On Jun 4, 4:50 am, Ludovic Brenta <ludo...@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote:
> anon wrote on comp.lang.ada:
>
>
>
> > Install only adds the next version to your system. So try this:
>
> > Note: Do not delete "/usr/gnat" or any "/usr/gnat" subdirectories because
> > this contains the 2009 GNAT files.
>
> > All other gnat files can be delete.
>
> > 4.3.3 binaries:   rm /usr/bin/gnat*
>
> > 4.3.3 rts files do find / -name ada.ads
> >          then rm -r /<result from find>/gnat/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.3
>
> > But the best way is to delete all GNAT files and then reinstall the one you
> > want. Thios way you do not have any extra files floating around.
>
> > Rasika Srinivasan writes:
> >>My system is Ubuntu 9.04
> >>srini@srini-laptop:~/Projects/Ada/lib$ which gnatmake
> >>/usr/bin/gnatmake
> [...]
> >>Today (without checking above and making some wrong assumptions) I
> >>installed the 09 version of gnat as shown here :
> >>srini@srini-laptop:~/Projects/Ada/lib$ which gnatmake
> >>/usr/gnat/bin/gnatmake
> [...]
> >>I would like to uninstall my previous version and I had assumed the
> >>install of the GPL 2009 will take care of that.
>
> >>any case, Is there any gotchas involved in keeping both versions? Is
> >>there an easy way to uninstal the previous version?
>
> Please do not listen to "anon", he obviously knows nothing about
> Ubuntu.
>
> The correct answers are:
> - aptitude remove gnat gnat-4.3
> - no, installing GNAT GPL 2009 does not remove anything previously
> installed.
> - no, there is nothing wrong with having both gnats installed.
>
> PS. As the main (but not only) maintainer of Ada packages in Debian
> (which Ubuntu uses), I am curious to know why you decided to switch
> from the Debian packages to GNAT GPL 2009?
>
> --
> Ludovic Brenta.
> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
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> A: Top-posting.
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Only reason (s) -

- some packages i dearly wanted to experiment with did not build off
the shelf. Both polyorb and AWS gave me troubles. Was a bit
preoccupied with other things so could not troubleshoot the issues.

- Wanted to experiment with eclipse instead of my current emacs based
environment. but just could not get the ada support installed. again
didnt know enough about the design of eclipse plugins.

Basically an attempt to start on a clean slate.

thanks, srini