-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Joe Sloan schrieb:
| John B Pace wrote: |> You are dealing with an older dummy here, but too old! I'm wanting to |> know if there is a way to install tarballs properly in Suse. To an |> extent each version of linux I have tried are different, but in each I |> have found it impossible to install a tarball. Thanks! John | The installation of a program from a tarball is a fairly standard drill | in any linux distro, typically a few steps: | tar -xvf program.tar | cd program | ./configure | make | make install An alternative "sudo checkinstall" will create a binary rpm for the future and for the uninstall. Checkinstall package need to be installed. On crappy tarballs you might need to do 'sudo make install' before evoking 'checkinstall'. Also most configure scripts shows its options when evoking './configure --h' and most packages contains a readme file as well. For the important tarballs I also create a spec file and thus create a source rpm for future compilations. There is also a KRPMbuilder as support your work on spec files. I'm not that brilliant packager though. However there is not much on SUSE I need to compile myself. I always check with http://packages.opensuse-community.org/ before downloading and compiling a tarball or I just use its CLI equivalent. There is probably a billion further aspects I'm not aware of, but its ok for a n00b like me. @Joe Sorry to replay your replay but I wanted to keep your and my info together. - -- All the best, Peter J. N. aedon DESIGNS http://www.hochzeitsbuch.info http://www.hochzeitsbuch.selfip.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHlI5wh8q3OtgoGAwRArCPAJ0aMIfUzowIKx1oXmqdJtOH6GVSmQCfegwF aofL4NnlzsjOE0TyN81vSM4= =eve7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
