On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 20:00, Chris Wilkinson wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm setting up my old computer (Duron 1100) with Mandrake 10.0 > official, so that I can sell it. I also wish to go to town on > setting it up, with the best software so that the new owner is > gonna get the best intro to linux! I hope to LAN all those apps > across from my new computer, since most apps I've downloaded the > rpm or source manually. Gimp 2.0 however came from contrib using > rpmdrake, so there is no single rpm file to transfer...
does rpmdrake not keep the rpm's on the computer? so checj that it has not been cached in some obscure directory. something like: locate gimp|grep rpm should find it for you (if it is there). > > My question is this...can I build an rpm from an already-installed > software package? not really, not in any easy way anyway. binary rpm's are built from source rpms > If I could I would be able to just copy Gimp 2.0 > across the LAN to the old PC, try doing something like this: [on the box with gimp installed] rpm -ql gimp gives a list of files installed by rpm when gimp was installed. you could then copy them over manually, or tar them all up and transfer th tar file and untar it. However: 1. any initialisation files that rpm would have run will not run, as we do not know what they are. 2. on the new machine gimp will nit be recorded in the rpm dtatbase, it will be like it was built and installed from source. > without needing to install contrib or > plf to urpmi sources on the old one...the synthesis and hdlist for > contrib and plf take over an hour to download alone, you do not need to do that, you could short circuit this by just finding the rpm on the contrib site and installing it. > and then I'd > need to get Gimp 2.0...yet another 1.5 hours of modem time I don't > have! :-) tell me where it is and I could download it for you.
