Hi,

On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Edmunds, Keith wrote:

> I went to install Samba V2 on my SuSE 6.0 system last night. The
> problem, of course, is the location of the files, which is different
> on SuSE 6 to the defaults in Samba (which puts them somewhere under
> /usr/local).

Right. This is the default, if you install a package from source. Since we
have integrated the package in our distribution, we install it under /usr.

> This is an ongoing issue - I had the same problem upgrading fvwm2.
> What's a good solution to this one? Can SuSE document how they place
> files, so that when I run 'configure' I can give the correct arguments
> to upgrade the correct files?

This is documented in the spec-file, which belongs to the source-RPM. Just
install the source package or have a look into the SRPM using "mc".

Bye,
        LenZ

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