On Sunday 05 Dec 2004 19:25 pm, steve wrote:
I want to try to run scribus and inkscape by not installing them on our clients and exporting via nfs. The binaries are in /usr/bin on our server. What do I export from the server to the clients (who already have a /usr/bin) and where do I mount it on the clients so it's in their path? Or maybe I'm asking for too much. Lan with all on 9.2.
Are you installing from rpm or compiling from source? If it's from source then stow (http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/stow.html) might be useful - it puts all the files for an app in one directory and makes links from the 'expected' locations to the real files. For example, you could have the apps in /usr/local/stow/scribus and /usr/local/stow/inkscape with links from /usr/bin etc. Then export /usr/local/stow and create the necessary links on the clients. You might be able to do something similar with an rpm if it's relocatable - see the -prefix and relocate options in man rpm. Dylan
cheers, Steve.
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