To turn a tarball into a rpm, check out checkinstall on freshmeat. It had a problem with glibc(I think) on eD2.4 and wasn't reliable. It works fine with W3.x though.
Jim On Wednesday, May 22, 2002 8:38, Keith Antoine wrote: <snip> > Well I have at least started , by copying it to a partition on the HD. I > also have many rpms that I have done for SuSE 8.0 I am sure that I can use > to update this. I am also aware that there is a system whereby one can get > a tarball and rpm it staright away. I am fortunate in that I have a _GRUNT_ > system in h/w. I run a BIG hardware supplier online and look after his > website (http://www.gamedude.com.au), I get everything at cost and he > trades the old stuff for me. > Athlon XP2000, Soltek MB DDR 1gig, 60 & 20 gig 7200 HD. > > So as dep suggested start with 2.4 and go from there, as I also said I am > open to suggestions too. I need things to occupy me, -- 10:42pm up 16 days, 12:03, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Running Caldera W3.1 - Linux - because life is too short for reboots... _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
