Keeping KDE apps in sync with SuSE YAST
If and when I install KDE apps that are not available through YAST, how can I insure that YAST is properly informed?
Hi Albert,
If and when I install KDE apps that are not available through YAST, how can I insure that YAST is properly informed?
... if you use rpm (ie. "rpm -i") to install a precompiled package then Yast2 knows about this because Yast2 uses the rpm database. If, however, you download something that you have to compile yourself (usually thru "make install") then Yast2 knows exactly nothing about that. Usually that's not much of a probem, unless you later want to install a program that has a dependency on the previously self-compiled program. That might lead to dependency problems, but not necessarily. Mostly these problems arise only when you start deinstalling a program again but not as long as you only install programs. Bottom line, try to find a SuSE rpm if possible. If there's no SuSE rpm, then try another rpm. Using an rpm is always preferrable over compiling one for oneself. Hope this helps. -- cul8er, Paul paul.foerster@gmx.net
On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 07:46:16 -0600
Albert
On Saturday 10 January 2004 12:40, Paul Foerster wrote: <snip>
Hope this helps.
Yes, indeed. Thank you, Paul.
You can also use checkinstall which is a wrapper for make install. If you download a program *.tar.gz run configure then make simplely substitute checkinstall for make install. This will determine what files make install will actually install ask some questions about standard documentation and then build an rpm which i9s placeed in /usr/src/packages/RPM/i***. Checkinstall is included in 9.0.
On Saturday 10 January 2004 15:09, James Fletemeyer wrote: <snip>
You can also use checkinstall which is a wrapper for make install. If you download a program *.tar.gz run configure then make simplely substitute checkinstall for make install. This will determine what files make install will actually install ask some questions about standard documentation and then build an rpm which i9s placeed in /usr/src/packages/RPM/i***. Checkinstall is included in 9.0.
Thanks, James. I saw checkinstall but ignored it because I was familiar with a different program with the same name. -- "Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it." -- George Orwell as Syme in "1984"
On Saturday 10 January 2004 12:31, Albert wrote:
If and when I install KDE apps that are not available through YAST, how can I insure that YAST is properly informed?
After ANY installation not done with YAST, open a console as root and run SuSEconfig (enter/return whatever). This is needed so that all the config files are updated. Jim
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Albert
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James Fletemeyer
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Jim MacLeod
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Paul Foerster