If there is no rpm package available for your distro, you should be able to make your own rpm. There are several ways to do this, but the easiest way I have found is to use a program called 'checkinstall'. This will make an rpm that you will install on your system. The upside of using checkinstall is that the rpm will be taylor made for your system. The downside is that it will not necesicarially be optimized for other systems, so this is not the best tool for making an rpm for general distribution. But for an easy way to make an rpm for your own system, this is it.
Down load the source code for slimserver (tar.gz). You will use that code to make your own rpm with 'checkinstall'. Then you will install that rpm. That should work, assuming pclinuxos is rpm based. I'm not sure of the details of using this in pclinuxos, but here is a good how-to for Suse. http://susewiki.org/index.php?title=Building_Simple_RPMs I just did a quick google, and found this article for pclinuxos. http://www.pclinuxonline.com/wiki/HowToInstallSoftware Hope this helps. Jim F kegsy1 wrote: > Yep thanks HoZ - After getting a bit of a belting by the forum moderator > - the forum gave me some links and also the advice that even as a member > you have to have posted at least 10 times before you qualify to make any > suggestions. > > It all started to get a bit unfriendly so I deleted my original post > and left. I've read everything on the Slim Devices wiki that seems > somehow relevant to making this thing work properly under PCLOS and > even found some "required" packages that I hadn't installed but have > hit the impasse. There is still something to do with something called > YAML and sadly the error msg that might point me in the right direction > (in the Admin Centre) is useless as it gets cropped. > > Anyway there are more important things in life and so I'll probably > crawl back to Ubuntu and XP and write this down to experience. > > > _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
