Tony Nugent wrote: > > On Sun Nov 03 2002 at 09:52, "Rinaldi J. Montessi" wrote: > > > Or ./configure &&\ > > make &&\ > > make_install > > > > Unless Red Hat has some philosophical problems with recommending people use > > source tarballs? > > That works, but it could be dangerous as it could currupt the > contents of your rpm database. Or at least make it obselete and out > of sync with what is on your system. First step is to rpm -e the application in question. Yes, there is the drawback of not getting notified of updated packages for that app, but the cost of "living on the edge". > make install should put most things into /usr/local/ and that's ok, > the assumption is that non-rpm-managed packages go there. I have a > habit of first doing "make -n install" to see what it would do:) Of course (make -n install)> to a log file of some sort. Not all apps have a make uninstall. Also, keep the tarballs for any home rolled apps in one location. I use /usr/local/src. This serves as a reminder of what's not part of the RH install and what isn't. > However, if a make install over-writes things that were already > there or broke things in other ways, oops :) Thus the rpm -e. The RH install directories are not always of the same persuasion as the app author/maintainer. > Many tarballs now include a .spec file, and if that is the case then > "rpbbuild -tb package.tar.gz" will produce an rpm for you to install > it as a managed package. Some years ago I ran across that with Samba. That's when I was just learning how powerful linux is. My first install was RH 4.1 (one cd). My experience has been not to install anything less than RH X.2 on my working partition and to read *lots* before that :-) That's why I've been hanging around here for the last week or so. I do have a 15 gig playground that I try upgrades/installs on but I just hate to (sigh) reboot > Cheers > Tony Rinaldi -- The Devil is wise not because he is the Devil, but because he is old. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
