Rick Sivernell wrote: <snip> >> > > Thanks guys. I have dl the latest already. I can force the rpm -nodeps as it has a > depens on xscreensaver. I did build the src rpm as Lonnie suggested. My problem is > after building xscreensaver ./conf make make install. the rpm does not see > xscreen. trying to rpm build from rpm --tarbuild but nothing seems to be > understood by rpm. > > [root@RSivernell xfce]# rpm -tarbuild xscreensaver-4.00.tar > rpm: --tarbuild (-t) requires one of a,b,i,c,p,l as its sole argument
rpm won't see the install via tarball, yes that's true. If xscreensaver is installed, it'll work. There's nothing wrong with installing rpms with --nodeps, as long as you KNOW that whatever deps it has are satisfied (as rpm only knows about things installed via rpm, it will not know about things installed from tarball). I don't know anything about the --tarbuild feature of rpm, but I believe it requires a specfile and a bunch of other hoo-hah to get it to work properly. If you're concerned about maintaining the rpm database so that it knows about your xscreensaver, it might be easier for you to use a program called checkinstall to build an rpm for you. Check it out at http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/ I've only used it a few times, myself, but it seems to work as advertised. Regards, Tim _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
