On 5/26/05, Andrew Greig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > > Thanks for the quick response. Tried the prefix thingy and this is the > result: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] RPMS]# rpm ivh --prefix /usr/local *.rpm > rpm: --prefix may only be used when installing new packages > [EMAIL PROTECTED] RPMS]# > > Now I had 1.1.3 on before but I used rpm to remove it. Maybe it did an > inexact job. Any ideas on cleanup? > > I believe that the previous installer was excellent, and as good as any > around. I understand that the rpm route gives more package control, > especially for upgrades, but is overly complex compared with the tar.gz > and then ./setup. At least it asked you if you had a particular > destination in mind. > > But why /opt what is so distasteful about /usr/local? I picked the > idea of a separate partition for /usr/local up from a Slackware > article. Now whenever I do a system upgrade I just format / and /user > and everything stays peachy. > > Obviously I need to bone up on rpm, but I thought that with rpm you > didn't have to, unless you wanted to build packages. > > Where to now? > > Andrew Greig > Melbourne, Australia
I suppose you could make /opt a symbolic link to /usr/local if you don't want /opt to be seperate. Orson --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
