On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 04:24 -0800, dfirth wrote: > I am runninng rsync on Ubuntu. It was installed using apt-get install rysnc. > I note that the package has not yet been updated to rysnc 3.0. > I would like to update using the tar but I am confused how to update the > existing installation. > On this machine, I am mainly using rsync to send to a cwrsync server (which > I have updated already). Can I just overwrite the rsync executable?
Yes, that's the idea, but that might upset the package manager a bit. It might be better to copy the new executable to /usr/local/bin where it should take priority over the old one without actually overwriting it. Matt -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
