<p>Unless you specified a prefix to <code>configure</code> it should have overwritten the old libgeany.</p>

<p>My recipe that ensures a specific version (and doesn't touch your normal install) is: </p>

<pre><code>mkdir /some/where
cd /some/where
git clone <the url>
cd geany
./autogen.sh --prefix=/some/where
make install
cd ../bin
./geany -c ../config
</code></pre>

<p>And as <a href="https://github.com/codebrainz" class="user-mention">@codebrainz</a> said above I'm pretty sure it sets -g itself in that situation.</p>

<p>And just <code>rm -rf /some/where</code> when you have finished, nothing is placed outside that tree.</p>

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