completion of my list of installed programs
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? I remembered to use Suseconfig after the compilation but was there something else?
On Thursday 30 October 2003 11:54, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
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?
Probably, if, after compiling and <make install>, one uses the progrom <checkinstall> instead if make install, the checkinstall is capable of making an RPM which will then show up as "installed" when giving the instruction at the command prompt :- rpm -qa If you want a text file listing all installed programs, then :- rpm -qa > installed.txt should produce what you want. ........................ My own experience [ once] failed, as 'checkinstall' needs path to 'source' and I could not find out what will satisfy this requirement :) -- best wishes ____________ sent on Linux ____________
On Thursday 30 October 2003 12:04 pm, pinto wrote:
Probably, if, after compiling and <make install>, one uses the progrom <checkinstall> instead if make install,
Actually you should use checkinstall INSTEAD OF make install. ./configure make checkinstall -- SuSE Linux 8.2 (i586) Linux 2.4.20-4GB-athlon
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Jonathan Lim
./configure make checkinstall
Most of the time this works, but I have encountered the odd package where you need to do "make install" first or else the rpm wouldn't build properly. Charles -- "Are [Linux users] lemmings collectively jumping off of the cliff of reliable, well-engineered commercial software?" (By Matt Welsh)
On Thursday 30 October 2003 19:04, pinto wrote:
On Thursday 30 October 2003 11:54, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
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?
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Probably, if, after compiling and <make install>, one uses the progrom <checkinstall> instead if make install, the checkinstall is capable of making an RPM which will then show up as "installed" when giving the instruction at the command prompt :-
rpm -qa
If you want a text file listing all installed programs, then :-
rpm -qa > installed.txt
should produce what you want.
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My own experience [ once] failed, as 'checkinstall' needs path to 'source' and I could not find out what will satisfy this requirement :)
Thanks for the idea but on my hd I did not find a checkinstall program. Hope there is something else I can do.
On Thursday 30 October 2003 12:24, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
but on my hd I did not find a checkinstall program.
~ believe <checkinstall> is available from the APT repository. -- best wishes ____________ sent on Linux ____________
On Thursday 30 October 2003 19:59, pinto wrote:
On Thursday 30 October 2003 12:24, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
but on my hd I did not find a checkinstall program.
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~ believe <checkinstall> is available from the APT repository.
Looked into APT/ Synaptic but the only thing that find turned up was a tetex-frogg program which was made using checkinstall. Will do a google ;-)
On Thu 30 October 2003 14:27, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
On Thursday 30 October 2003 19:59, pinto wrote:
On Thursday 30 October 2003 12:24, Constant Brouerius van
Nidek wrote:
but on my hd I did not find a checkinstall program.
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~ believe <checkinstall> is available from the APT repository.
Looked into APT/ Synaptic but the only thing that find turned up was a tetex-frogg program which was made using checkinstall. Will do a google ;-)
checkinstall is installed in /usr/sbin/, if you are not logged in as root, you may not find it. It is a package on the SuSE CD's (called 'checkinstall'). -- GPG fingerprint = 3D45 5509 D380 26A4 523E A9D8 A66A 5F38 CA43 BB0E
On Thursday 30 October 2003 19:59, pinto wrote:
On Thursday 30 October 2003 12:24, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
but on my hd I did not find a checkinstall program.
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~ believe <checkinstall> is available from the APT repository.
Looked into APT/ Synaptic but the only thing that find turned up was a tetex-frogg program which was made using checkinstall. Will do a google ;-) Knew it of course ;-(. It is on the cd, Installed it and it seemed to work fine. Lots of activity ending in a request for a name suggestion of the rpm. Nice. But in the final part it wanted to have a path to the SOURCES directory. Could not satisfy the program and had to interrupt the process. What should I have given as an answer? /usr/src a nono, the directory where the source of the compilation could be found a no also.
On Thursday 30 October 2003 14:01, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
But in the final part it wanted to have a path to the SOURCES directory. Could not satisfy the program and had to interrupt the process. What should I have given as an answer? /usr/src a nono, the directory where the source of the compilation could be found a no also.
<CheckInstall> program ...................................... This is just what I suffered ~ I could not satisfy the demand for "SOURCE" :) best wishes, Richard Aigina, Greece 180-10 .............................................. ____________ sent on Linux ____________
On 10/30/2003 10:17 PM, pinto wrote:
On Thursday 30 October 2003 14:01, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
But in the final part it wanted to have a path to the SOURCES directory.
Try editing first /etc/checkinstallrc, and set it up for your machine. SOURCES would be /usr/src/packages/SOURCES (and doc directory is /usr/share/doc/packages) HTH.
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On Thursday 30 October 2003 21:47, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
On 10/30/2003 10:17 PM, pinto wrote:
On Thursday 30 October 2003 14:01, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
But in the final part it wanted to have a path to the SOURCES directory.
Try editing first /etc/checkinstallrc, and set it up for your machine. SOURCES would be /usr/src/packages/SOURCES (and doc directory is /usr/share/doc/packages) HTH.
Thanks for the info but in /etc/checkinstallrc there is no Sources. A place for docs yes and a place to let you put the ready made rpm in.
On Thursday 30 October 2003 14:47, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Try editing first /etc/checkinstallrc, and set it up for your machine. SOURCES would be /usr/src/packages/SOURCES (and doc directory is /usr/share/doc/packages) HTH.
<checkinstall> ___________ Thank you. -- best wishes ____________ sent on Linux ____________
On 10/30/03 15:01:50, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
Knew it of course ;-(. It is on the cd, Installed it and it seemed to work fine. Lots of activity ending in a request for a name suggestion of the rpm. Nice. But in the final part it wanted to have a path to the SOURCES directory.
Run it, as root, from the same directory where you are making the program you try to install; ie, where the Makefile is. And, I'm assuming you are using the checkinstall that came with the SuSE CDs, and that you run "YOU" to see if there were any updates for it later.
Could not satisfy the program and had to interrupt the process. What should I have given as an answer? /usr/src a nono, the directory where the source of the compilation could be found a no also.
It never asked me such a thing. It would help if you posted the last few lines printed by the script. You should have this directory structure: /usr/src/packages/ |-- BUILD |-- RPMS | |-- athlon | |-- i386 | |-- i486 | |-- i586 | |-- i686 | `-- noarch |-- SOURCES |-- SPECS `-- SRPMS Check that you do have it. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
On 10/30/03 13:24:17, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
Thanks for the idea but on my hd I did not find a checkinstall program. Hope there is something else I can do.
Then what are you waiting to install it? It comes on the CDs, just fire up yast and search for it. The number of programs the SuSE distro has is huge, and most are not installed. Use 'pin' to find them. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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'. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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