On 8/31/05, David Ciecierski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello again, > as you can see in the topic I'm following "The Hint"... and can't cope > with installing gnome-panel anymore. Could someone please post how they > did this? My install continues to fail badly.
I know you've already invested quite a bit of time into package users, but I'm just gonna throw out a package manager that's in the hints that I use and I like a lot. It's called paco by David Rosal http://paco.sourceforge.net/. It's designed to handle source installation, so it's easy to use. The gist of it is this: you just wrap your commands with paco, it uses LD_PRELOAD to attach itself and reports any files that have been added to the package name you specify. Here's an example. You've got package test-1.2.3. ./configure make paco -l -p test-1.2.3 "make install" Not too bad. Then to see what's installed: paco -f test-1.2.3 To remove: paco -r test-1.2.3 It tracks shared files and won't remove them unless you force it. Nice, simple, don't have to write a spec file, etc. There's a gtk2 front end as well to view your logged packages, but obviously this is down the road if you're starting from scratch. I installed it as the first package in Ch. 6 and haven't had a problem with it once. Also, there are a lot more clever options, but the ones above simply get it done. Check it out. Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
