True, RPMs install where they want to. I only found RPMs upto 1.1.28. I'm
not able to get into a few of the contrib (ftp://ftp.redhat.com/contrib or
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/redhat/contrib) directories of
some FTP sites to see if they have any newer versions.
marco
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Hartung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2000 2:03 AM
Subject: Re: tarbll installation'isms for a newbie (corrected and extended).
> Marco,
> Thanks. I agree that RPMs are nice, except it seems to be very hard to
find
> RPMs that are up do date. I could not find any RPMs on the gimp-1.1.29
unles
> there is some source other than gimp.org. Also, I like to keep installed
> programs in /usr/local . . . and it seems that at least with RedHat RPMs
> install into what are probably not "standard" directories [note that I am
not
> conversant in the intricacies of the ext2 filesystem and the "normal"
install
> locations].
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Bob
>
>
> Marco Shaw wrote:
>
> > > My question: After installation are the files in the
> > > '/downloads/gimp/gimp-1.1.29' now superfluous? Can I delete
> > > this directory to recover the disk space without affecting
> > > the installed program and its required files, libraries,
> > > etc.??
> >
> > You can blow the orginal directory away...As long as it's not where the
> > program decided to install itself!
> >
> > > For future reference is there a list of all files installed
> > > and their locations?
> >
> > Not already built in. You'll have to either save the output of make
install
> > or capture the install some other way. This is one advantage of RPMs...
> >
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