for those tar files that are not in portage i use checkinstall: just to ./configure then make and then run checkinstall instead of make install. checkinstall will make an rpm and install it, so that you can use rpm -e to uninstall and use rpm -qa to see what is installed.
On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 15:42, Peter Ruskin wrote:
On Monday 29 Dec 2003 23:07, Gerhard W.Gruber wrote: > I josticed got a notification that a new driver for my videocard is > available at www.ati.com. Since I can't activate 3D acceleration I > hope that this new driver will fix this. Of course there is no emerge > yet, because the ati-driver package still has 3.2.8. Now I wonder > what effects will that have if I try install that RPM package. How > well does emerge and rpm go together? If this driver works and gentoo > has included the new driver can I remove the rpm and emerge the > gentoo version? There are several options here. 1) Get the rpm and do `rpm -i --nodeps <rpm>` and `rpm -e <rpm>` when you want to uninstall 2) This is better: Get the src rpm if it exists and do `rpm2targz <src.rpm>. Then you can either build from source (./configure, make and (make install as root)) or make an ebuild from it. Peter
