On Thursday 19 July 2001 02:28, Abraham Mandac wrote:
>
> I'm assuming that 'rpm -q' doesn't work in this
> case because rpm was never involved in the build
> process. But I'd like to be absolutely
> sure. What do you guys think?
That's the reason, if it isn't in the rpm database, then rpm -q can't
find it.
What I do to avoid this problem is to use the checkinstall progr4am, this
will do a make install for you and create a rpm package (and database
entries) for you. You can get it at
http://mayams.net/~izto/checkinstall-en.html
--
Alex
Kernel Panic is General Failure's second in command
