-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday October 4 2003 02:47, Fred Sloniker wrote:
I have a program (The Ur-Quan Masters, v.0.3) that I can compile from source and install on my SuSE box. Which is fine, except I'd rather install it as an RPM; I just think it's tidier to have all my software installed as RPMs, so I can easily uninstall or upgrade. The catch, of course, is that, if there's an RPM for this game (sc2.sourceforge.net), I haven't found it. Being slightly bored and something of a glutton for punishment, I'm wondering: how hard would it be to make an RPM out of the source?
If someone out there feels generous enough to make such an RPM (like the kind person who made NetHack 3.4.2 RPMs when all I was asking was if they were available), that'd be wonderful, but I'd still like to learn how to do it myself. Let me know if you can help!
./configure make checkinstall This will both build an rpm, nice for special flags and specifics to you sys, and also install the tar.gz. So you end up with both the original tar.gz and an rpm - which of course the rpm database recognizes and will let you unistall, or move around to other places, systems, etc. Checkinstall is on the SuSE CDs (or should I now say SUSE - slight name change for marketing). HTH, Curtis. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/fqQiiqnGhdjCOJsRAgxnAJ9A/lxEfDMoZq5g505K32AJk10H0ACdHv5x buhAB8OqoSQFTJv4NnHZUCs= =A7ey -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----