Re: [expert] misuse of rpm -q ??
On July 19, 2001 02:28 am, Abraham Mandac wrote: I just recently built libIDL from source (libIDL is one of the libraries required to be able to build mozilla). snip $ rpm -q libIDL invokes this message: package libIDL is not installed No 'rpm -i', no entry in the RPM database, equals no ability to do a 'rpm -q'. -- Live fast, die young, you're sucking up my bandwidth J.P. Pasnak, CD Warped Systems http://www.warpedsystems.sk.ca
Re: [expert] misuse of rpm -q ??
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
