On Tuesday, 18 November 2014 2:00 AM, Armin K. <[email protected]> wrote:
On 17.11.2014 17:55, Sainadh J wrote:
> Hello,
>
> while installing the packages i saw
> NOTE
> If you installed the package on to your system using a “DESTDIR” method, an
> important file was not installed and must be copied and/or generated.
> Generate it using the following command as the root user:
> gtk-query-immodules-2.0 --update-cache
>
>
> what is meant by?i am confusing about this whether i installed it or not?
> could any body please give me a clarity about this?thanks in advance.
>
>
>
TL;DR If you don't know what DESTDIR method is then you probably don't
need to be worrying about the note at all.
>But, I'll try to clarify it a bit:
>DESTDIR method generally means that a package wasn't installed to root
>fs using make install, but rather was installed somwehere else, by using
>"make install DESTDIR=/path/to/whatever" (equivalents to DESTDIR apply
>too, since not every package uses DESTDIR, there are similar env vars
>which do more or less the same) and using certain package managing
>methods (optinonally) modified and copied (read: installed) to the root
>fs (/).
>This is how most, if not all package managers work - they build a
>package, install it to a destdir (sometimes also refered to as "fake
>root"), did some modifications (if any), created a binary package (using
>many ways) and let the user install it to their system (root partition,
>/) using a package manager.
>--
>Note: My last name is not Krejzi.
Thanks for your replay.so this option is our choice right?
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