Paul Kraus wrote: >Ok well after some research it seem that compliing from source is always >better then rpm's. Lets you get very specific on how you want the >program setup and more so where it is install (woo who!). How do you >determin dependencies for source? Thanks. > >PK > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
Well that is the problem... You can install something that doesn't work because it needs something else or like windows games that often arrogantly install their own version of DirectX (even though yours may be more recent), you may break things. Some makefiles allow make -n install to look at the files list and then you can see if you have any of thise files already there. Uninstalling is generally impossible unless you have the files list. Hence the packaging methods like .deb and .rpm . Better yet is to find the source rpm it would look like Xtart-1.1.-6mdk.src.rpm You can install that as user in your own rpm tree -- say put mkdir -p ~/rpm mkdir -p ~/rpm/BUILD mkdir -p ~/rpm/SOURCES mkdir -p ~/rpm/SPECS mkdir -p ~/rpm/RPMS mkdir -p ~/rpm/SRPMS And make sure you install _all_ the rpm tools Then in your home directory rpm -i Xtart-1.1-6mdk.src.rpm The source tarballs drop into rpm/SOURCES the all-important specification of customization drops into /rpm/SPECS and now you can edit with emacs the .spec file to suit your needs then rpm -ba Xtart.spec and if you have exit 0 status, you can pick the binary from the i586 subdirectory for rpm/RPMS and install it as root with rpm -ivh. Most alien rpms do _not_ get on the mandrake menus, so if that is important pull a couple of mandrake rpms that do get on the menu and install them to your rpm build directories and see how it is done. This is much safer than using the tarballs directly. There is a full howto on it at http://www.linux-mandrake.com/howtos/mdk-rpm/ Civileme >
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