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Kai Ponte wrote:
On Saturday 22 October 2005 15:36, Charles philip Chan wrote:
On 22 Oct 2005, stevetjacobs@gmail.com wrote:
In other words, if I choose to do an install manually somehow, like rpm from the command-line, Yast will no longer know what's what and will become undependable. No, you can install rpm's from the command line. YaST uses the rpm database.
If I install something via a script, or recompile something in to the kernel myself, than RPM won't have an accurate database and will be unusable. Use checkinstall:
which is included with SUSE.
That looks cool. However, I didn't find it in YaST. The website does have a binary RPM. I simply downloaded it and double-clicked it. It installed just fine.
HOWEVER... It gives me a "command not found" when I try to actually run it. I even rebooted to see. Typing "which checkinstall" doesn't do anything either.
You can check where the stuff is installed e.g "rpm -ql checkinstall",
"rpm -qpl