On Monday 05 June 2006 17:00, jhuniepi wrote: > hello people, > > i downloaded source files in .tar.gz format. i want to make it into > .rpm for rh9 so that i can install it using rpm. i prefer to use rpm > than make && make install because rpm has a database which you can > query for installed programs and can easily uninstall it. > > is there someone in this list doing that? can someone help me.. > > i want to know the details for that, so don't suggest to use yum or > apt-get. > > i'm searching google now. if you want to answer, just reply. > > TIA.
Link above is great. Basically: Get source packages. Create *.spec file. Place *.spec file in /usr/src/SPECS Place source package in /usr/src/SOURCES Run "rpm -ba /usr/src/SPECS/*.spec" If all goes well, binaries will then magically appear inside one of the folders in /usr/src/RPMS and the source rpms in /usr/src/SRPMS Some source packages include a *.spec file so you could just tweak those and put them in the SPEC folder. Some ./configure scripts also generate *.spec files. As an alternative to checkinstall, you could try krpmbuilder for those small odd packages: http://krpmbuilder.sourceforge.net/ Hope this helps. -- RAGE CALLAO Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Site: http://bayanihan.gov.ph Bayanihan GNU/Linux beta 1 Amor patriae _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
