Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Verner Kjærsgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [03-15-07 05:40]:
[...]
This should give you a lot/some files, all located in a directory of their
own. Change to this dir.
Become root, perhaps by issuing a 'su'
Read the README if it's there.
Follow whatever instructions are there.
Which will probably result in a borked system. He should utilize
'checkinstall' instead of 'make install' to maintain integrity of his
rpm based system. ESPECIALLY since he does not know how to install a
tar ball.
As a side note, I often find checkinstall failing, before running make
install.
That is on *some* packages, I have to do make install; checkinstall;
make uninstall, for the RPM to be build.
I dont have a specific app in mind, so I can't post the error, just
noted that this is sometimes the case.
/Sylvester
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