On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Tanveer Singh wrote: > Well I don't have a choice since at work I cannot get root access. Otherwise > rpm -ivh is the best option I think. > But the bright side is that I can choose what to build. > As for how maintainable is this setup, for big packages like kde etc., there > are actually no issues. > The .la problem cropped up just because of the bug in Redhat Enterprise 4. > Otherwise on a normal system, building from source is actually not tough at > all. > I used to have gentoo on my home machine. > So if you take care of all dependencies(this is done by going through the > docs) its easy work. > But building from sources sure takes time, and in the end using the package > manager is a better option. > but then if you want to go bleeding edge build from sources.
Hmm. Running a live CD under virtualbox? Nah.. you will need to modprobe vboxdrv and you do not have root... BTW, Please remember to post when you do figure out the libxine-dev and linxine-dbg issue. -- Manish _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
