On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 13:19 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Wednesday 2006-02-01 at 18:36 -0500, Carl Hartung wrote:
I've thrown a couple of tarballs in (without problem ...)
I suggest you look into 'checkinstall,' which comes with the distribution. It can be used to build rpm packages from tarballs, so you can remove the software with YaST (or CLI rpm) if it breaks your system.
I concur :-)
I'm really troubled by your "... moved to 10.0 from 9.3, ..." comment.
The more familiar you are with SUSE, the easier it is to *upgrade* from one release to the next. I've done it both ways and, IMHO, the "fresh" installs are a lot less work.
I rather find the contrary is true, updates are less work for me... :-p
It depends a lot on each case, I suppose.
By the way, if you have a number of localized rpms, it is not a bad idea to have /usr/local in a different partition - same reason as for /home.
Also, I believe a full backup previous to either update or new install is mandatory. Should be.
Mandatory -no-, highly recommended -yes-.
You also might consider keeping a 'lab book' handy to record and keep notes on all your customizations. You'll outgrow the need for it in short order, if your present progress is any indication. :-)
Yes! Notes are very handy for future reference, it is easy to forget that obscure one line configuration change that made all the difference!
Note are your best friend when making a lot of changes. Makes it easier to back out changes that did not go as planned. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998