On 03/08/2007 05:15:23 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
Although digikam 0.9.0 is available in extras, I'd like
to install
0.9.1 as it includes two 'killer features' that are
important to me. I
have no problem installing from tarball, but before I do
I'd like to
know if I have any other options. I suppose that I could
create an
rpm, would that be worth the trouble for a single
install? I wouldn't
be able to maintain the rpm in a public repo so I'm not
sure if the
effort is worth it. What does the Fedora community think?
You already have two fine suggestions, but let me add
another: checkinstall. I don't have the location to
download checkinstall from to hand, but a google search
should turn it up quickly enough. checkinstall is a script
which runs the "make install" step of a tarball build to
create either a rpm package, a debian package, or a
slackware package. For one off situations, it seems to do a
nice job. YMMV
