Here's what I do personally which seems to work great;
I'm using Slackware Linux, and I build ClamAV from source. But, I don't want to just do "make install" as that leaves me with the responsabillity to manually clean out old versions by hand etc. So what I do instead is use "checkinstall". checkinstall is a tool that'll monitor an installation done by "make install" and then it'll build a package for your distribution that you can later uninstall or upgrade with your distributions standard tools. checkinstall can build both Slackware packages, RPMs, Debian .deb packages etc.
Here's an example of how I do it (you would ofcourse use rpm in place of my use of slackwares installpkg/removepkg/upgradepkg tools).
; First I configure clamav-0.65 $ ./configure <with whatever options I want to use> ; then I build it $ make ; then we change to the root user to install/build package $ su ; then we run checkinstall (which then runs 'make install' and monitor it) # checkinstall -S ; the -S option tells checkinstall to build a Slackware package, ; you'd ofcourse want to build a RedHat one ; you can run checkinstall without any options and it will ask ; what distribution to build a package for ; now, after checkinstall finishes I'm left with a Slackware package ; named clamav-0.65-i486-01.tgz which I can then install # installpkg clamav-0.65-i486-01.tgz
; Now that was pretty easy... ; if I want to remove clam again I can now simply run # removepkg clamav-0.65-i486-01 ; just as with any other package
Now, let's assume I have 0.65 installed as pr the instructions above and I download 0.67 and want to upgrade. Then I'd first build 0.67 *just like* I did with the 0.65 version above. This time I'l be left with a package called clamav-0.67-i486-01.tgz , and to upgrade I only have to run
# upgradepkg clamav-0.67-i486-01.tgz
And the magic happens :-)
Same thing with RedHat, except you'd use "rpm -i" etc to install/remove/upgrade the generated packages.
You can find checkinstall here : http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/index.php
I'm personally using the latest checkinstall-1.6.0beta3 version which works like a charm.
You should read the very informative README file here : http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/docs/README If you want all the details, but simple usage like above should do you just fine in most cases.
In my oppinion checkinstall is a life saver when doing a lot of source installs of software.
Kind regards,
Jesper Juhl
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