Randy,
I think you'll have one of these friendly Linux servers in your
neighbourhood where you can get a new slocate.rpm (*if* there are fresher
ones than the one you seem to have ...) ... if I remember it correctly
they have on www.redhat.com a link to Linux servers where it (normally) is
possible to download the goodies you need.
As to installing source rpm's, that's rather simple, even for a Newbie
like I am: I get the src.rpm that I need, then doing this:
(The following lines in the box wrote (IIRC) Thomas Ribbrock here on the
list: where is this guy ... I don't remember hearing from him a long time
... hoping everything's OK with you, Thomas .... :)
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In many cases you can simply run the command
rpm --rebuild APPLICATION.src.rpm
to compile the SRPM into an RPM - you don't even have to know much about
compiling. If all goes well, you'll end up with a brandnew
APPLICATION.i386.rpm in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386, which you can then
install the normal way.
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Thanks again, Thomas ..
Wolfgang
--
Wolfgang Pfeiffer
http://www.geocities.com/wolfgangpfeiffer
Message from Randy Perkins on Wed, 28 Feb 2001, 17:49 <-0500>:
> i would like to update slocate to 2.5 as listed at
> http://www.geekreview.org/slocate/
>
> however i cant find an rpm for redhate with that version.
> i have never used a source rpm.
>
> what should i do now.
>
> what i am trying to accomplish is searching through multiple directories
> for files, whose filenames match a regular expression. overall it is about
> 10,000 files that will be looked at. i want this to happen quickly as i
> will
> be returning a web page based on the search results. if their is a better
> tool
> to use than slocate, i am open to that also.
>
> thanks
>
> randy
>
>
> here is the version of slocate
>
> Secure Locate v2.4 - Released November 28, 2000
>
> here is the error message
>
> slocate fluky bug found!
> Ack! This shouldn't happen unless you have a path over 4096!
> Report this as a bug to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
>
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