Re: install methods - best practices?

2006-04-13 Thread Tim Hare
While I'm on the topic - is there a redbook or other document that discusses best practices for managing software installation on a Linux system? If I download the Mono RPMs is there a directory that RPMs are expected to be in? Is there one that's commonly used by Linux admins? Seems to me a

Re: install methods - best practices?

2006-04-13 Thread Post, Mark K
as he wants. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Neale Ferguson Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 1:11 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: install methods - best practices? You don't even need to download RPMs to install them. You

Re: install methods - best practices?

2006-04-13 Thread Neale Ferguson
You don't even need to download RPMs to install them. You can use rpm -Uhv http://... or other URL. If you do want to put them somewhere then /usr/src/packages/RPMS/s390x is probably as good as place as any, but as soon as they are installed you can delete them. The install process extracts the

Re: install methods - best practices?

2006-04-13 Thread Rick Troth
On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Tim Hare wrote: While I'm on the topic - is there a redbook or other document that discusses best practices for managing software installation on a Linux system? If I download the Mono RPMs is there a directory that RPMs are expected to be in? ... What Neale said,

Re: install methods - best practices?

2006-04-13 Thread John Summerfied
Tim Hare wrote: While I'm on the topic - is there a redbook or other document that discusses best practices for managing software installation on a Linux system? If I download the Mono RPMs is there a directory that RPMs are expected to be in? Is there one that's commonly used by Linux admins?

Re: install methods - best practices?

2006-04-13 Thread Kielek, Samuel
, 2006 7:45 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: install methods - best practices? Tim Hare wrote: While I'm on the topic - is there a redbook or other document that discusses best practices for managing software installation on a Linux system? If I download the Mono RPMs