On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, gene/ruth patnode-sturtevant wrote:
> Have RedHat 5.1 installed and working fine. The kernel is 2.0.34 and ppp
> is v.2.3.3.; here are the rpm files:
...
> Read the README and the README.linux and then started. It says:
> 1. Issue the command:
>
> ./configure
>
> from the top level directory of pppd. This is the directory which
> contains this README.linux file. etc etc.
>
> What am I missing -- all that command gets me is what I might expect: no
> such command.
The READMEs are taken directly from the original source code distribution,
so they include instructions on how to compile and install the software.
However, the .rpm files in a distribution contain precompiled code, and
the rpm installation process takes care of installing the code for you. By
and large, you can ignore the README files. As you've already installed
the ppp rpm, use 'linuxconf' or 'netcfg' to configure PPP. The procedure
is explained in the RH5.1 installation guide.
Geof
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