How to remove old glew on Ubuntu safely

[nigels-com]

How to remove old glew on Ubuntu safely

[nigels-com]

I would recommend installing to /usr/local rather than messing with the packaged GLEW.

$ sudo make GLEW_DEST=/usr/local install
install -d -m 0755 "/usr/local/include/GL"
install -m 0644 include/GL/wglew.h "/usr/local/include/GL/"
install -m 0644 include/GL/glew.h "/usr/local/include/GL/"
install -m 0644 include/GL/glxew.h "/usr/local/include/GL/"
sed \
                -e "s|@prefix@|/usr|g" \
                -e "s|@libdir@|/usr/local/lib64|g" \
                -e "s|@exec_prefix@|/usr/local/bin|g" \
                -e "s|@includedir@|/usr/local/include/GL|g" \
                -e "s|@version@|2.0.0|g" \
                -e "s|@cflags@||g" \
                -e "s|@libname@|GLEW|g" \
                -e "s|@requireslib@|glu|g" \
                < glew.pc.in > glew.pc
install -d -m 0755 "/usr/local/lib64"
install -m 0644 lib/libGLEW.so.2.0.0 "/usr/local/lib64/"
ln -sf libGLEW.so.2.0.0 "/usr/local/lib64/libGLEW.so.2.0"
ln -sf libGLEW.so.2.0.0 "/usr/local/lib64/libGLEW.so"
install -m 0644 lib/libGLEW.a "/usr/local/lib64/"
install -d -m 0755 "/usr/local/lib64"
install -d -m 0755 "/usr/local/lib64/pkgconfig"
install -m 0644 glew.pc "/usr/local/lib64/pkgconfig/"

[nigels-com]

See also: #52

[jasjuang]

Thanks, for some reason this method works though I am not entirely sure why...