On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 12:25:07 -0500 Epicurus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there some... uh, danger to using both of these methods? I typically like > to just go with source when I want a program--it's usually what a program's > website has available, so it spares me the trouble of hunting around to find > an .rpm for it--but from time to time, particularly when I realize that > there's something on my installation CDs that I'd like to put on here (or > need to put on so that I can install something from source :P), it serves my > purposes to use an .rpm. > > Just the other night, though, someone basically told me that if I did a fair > amount of installing from source that it might eventually become impossible > to install from .rpms. That's a fairly noxious possibility for me, since > .rpms can be convenient sometimes--they're sorta like the fast food of > software. > > Any ideas on this?
When you compile, you can use the --prefix variable to change the base of the install path. That way, you can install to a place where it won't harm your other software. Removal is a simple case of deleting the directory where you placed the programme (assuming you gave it its own dir). The best (and easiest) way is to use CheckInstall (http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall-en.html). It can will install a tarball as an RPM, and then give you a binary RPM to keep after the install. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "Ok, the guy who made the netfilter Makefile was probably on some really interesting and probably highly illegal drugs when he wrote it." -- Linus Torvalds
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