how to tell Yast1 that the sane softs are installed as tarballs.
Hello, Stupid question. SuSE-7.3 I wiped out the sane package because there was a problem finding the HP Scanjet6200C (usb) driver. I untarred and installed thus the last sane-frontend and sane-backend-1.0.8 tarballs and everything works perfectly. But: everytime I install or uninstall a package with YAST1 it insists to install the sane SuSE-7.3 package which is unoperational. How to tell Yast that the sane softwares are already installed and that I don't need the SuSE-7.3 package? Because I am afraid to be absent-minded and to say "yes" at the wrong moment and be having to reinstall the sane tarballs. -- Qui fut le plus à plaindre: Cassandre que personne n'écouta ou ceux qui n'écoutaient pas Cassandre ====== Who was more to be pitied Cassandra whom nobody listened to or those who were not listening to Cassandra -- Alain Barthélemy bartydeux@gminformatique.com cassandre@gminformatique.com Voyez mon site web sur: http://bartydeux.gminformatique.com Ma généalogie et la petite histoire de Herve et sa région
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 23:18, Alain Barthélemy wrote:
Hello,
Stupid question.
SuSE-7.3 I wiped out the sane package because there was a problem finding the HP Scanjet6200C (usb) driver. I untarred and installed thus the last sane-frontend and sane-backend-1.0.8 tarballs and everything works perfectly.
But: everytime I install or uninstall a package with YAST1 it insists to install the sane SuSE-7.3 package which is unoperational.
How to tell Yast that the sane softwares are already installed and that I don't need the SuSE-7.3 package? Because I am afraid to be absent-minded and to say "yes" at the wrong moment and be having to reinstall the sane tarballs. Hi,
One way around this problem is to use "checkinstall" (available on the SuSE distribution). This allows you to convert the tarball to an RPM package. i.e. instead of using "make install" you use checkinstall. Once the package is in RPM format it is easy to install/remove via yast. http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/ Regards, Graham Smith ---------------------------------------------------------
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