Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3785 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/30/03 12:54:34, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:

> For the first time I compiled a program by myself.
> Frightening but I think the waiting was worthwhile.
> Going to my trusted Yast I found that the program is not
> mentioned in the list of installed programs. What did I
> forgot after the compilation?

Create an rpm for the new program, and install it.

The easiest way for this  -- programmings gurus here differing -- is to  
use checkinstall. Just call 'checkinstall' as root instead of calling  
'make install'.

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Cheers,
      Carlos Robinson