>> >> Source RPMs are the proper way to install software from source code on >> Linux. They are rebuilt into binary RPMs with rpmbuild.
<SNIP> Thanks for that. I just installed Lyx from source since the available rpm required more up-to-date libraries (how can that be?). If I understand you correctly, I should have built a proper rpm from the Lyx source (which does use config) and then installed in the usual way. That's neat! Cheers, -- ------------------------------------------------------ Alan L Tyree [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/~alant Tel: +61 2 4782 2670 Mobile: +61 419 638 170 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
