On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 10:04:41PM +0300, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: > > I think the easiest would be to download their binary tar.gz (what > they call 'Linux downloads', the first option in their download page). > I know our DBA installed it more-or-less smoothly on RH73. > Not always RPMs are less work. Unless it's a trivial package, I tend > to install RPMs only from the distributor. Packages that have such > binary, location independent tar.gz's (such as tomcat, java, mozilla, > etc.) are very often easier to install than RPMs. If the problems are > real, e.g. if their binary tar.gz does need a shared lib you don't > have (or a newer one), you _will_ get into trouble, though.
You may also get into troubles if the package provides a library you need to link against. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
