While I'm on the topic - is there a redbook or other document that discusses "best practices" for managing software installation on a Linux system? If I download the Mono RPMs is there a directory that RPMs are "expected" to be in? Is there one that's commonly used by Linux admins? Seems to me a central place for "software we might want to install" makes sense? Do I just create my own and add it to YaST's configuration?
Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209 Tim Hare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> 04/12/2006 05:23 PM Please respond to Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> To [email protected] cc Subject Re: install methods I tried installing without GTK but there are still dependency problems with the version I was getting via Red Carpet (1.1.14 I recall) - for glib2, gmodule, gthread but I believe I have those installed already. I've been trying to use the RPM command to download it and install from the go-mono site, but I'm not getting the syntax right as near as I can tell; I don't know (yet) whether I can download another way - tried FTP to go-mono.com but when I do the 'ls' command I wander off into neverland somewhere. Looks like there should be one longish rpm command to do this, but I don't know where to get the newt's eye for the incantation. Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209 Neale Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> 04/12/2006 04:58 PM Please respond to Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> To [email protected] cc Subject Re: install methods rug will be the best way of doing things, just that I never ported GTK# to s390. Did you try the install without it? (Under the covers Yast2/rug are just using the rpm command set. Rug just simplifies things like dependency checking.) -----Original Message----- Wow - we haven't learned much from our mainframe (well, z/OS) experiences, I guess - where you mostly use SMP/E but some vendors try to put stuff around it to make it easier, some use a different install method, etc. This is the third method I will have used (other than the initial install) and I haven't really installed much.. Yast, Red Carpet, now RPM? Much as in z/OS, I'd love for all to adhere to one standard for packages to be installed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
