And that stinkin' html has to go..
usr tar the way it was intended. If you have mc it will do all these
things for you if you must for some reason avoid command line.
Myself, I would find newer packages on the web. By the time you get a
cd its packages are OldHat. The Rpms from suse.com work in all my
redhat machines, and are new.
Have fun mainly....
Tom Carlile wrote:
>
> Maybe I don't understand what you mean, but you can't just install a gz as a package.
> I'm not familiar with what an rpm is, but I'm pretty sure an rpm is really different
>than a
> tar.gz file. I don't think what you want to do is possible, but maybe I just don't
>know
> enough about rpm.
> Why are you using Outlook if you are a RedHatter?
>
> Faisal Naeem wrote:
>
> > Well fellas , I just migrated from slackware to rh 5.2 . I have a
>lot of utilities left over from slackware. I was wondering while running GLINT ( The
>graphical package manager) .
> > My question is if all the .gz that i have left over from slackware . I want to
>install them using glint/rpm but they will only install things which are .rpm ( valid
>rh packages ) .How can i fool
> > them into installing normail gzs as packages and whether i need to do this. I can
>explode gz's otherwise in my /usr Comments Ideas Tips Appreciated
>
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