On Sunday 05 May 2002 07:44 pm, LTG wrote:
Hi all,
I am familiar with rpm package. Now, there is a tar ball package of sendmail v 8.12.3 available to download at www.sendmail.org. I want to upgrade my sendmail (8.12.2) to the latest one (8.12.3). Could anybody point me to the site talking about this or tell me step by step to do this? I have tried to read documents coming with that package. But I can't still upgrade successfully. Any help will be gratefully appreciated.
Typically, a tarball opens well with the command tar -xzvf "tarball" if it is a .tar.gz, if it is a .tar.bz, the command is tar -xjvf "tarball". With those commands the tarball will explode itself into the directory it was opened in a subdirectory of "tarball". In there you should find a "configure" file, and you should run it, ./configure. It will check out your machine, and configure the make files to run correctly. It may error, and you can either fix the error, get an rpm or give up. If there is no "configure" file, then just run the next commands sometimes tarballs just need to be made and installed, or the configure file is built in. then you want to issue the commands "make" and "make install" and the program will be installed on your machine, replacing the previous version. Often configuring from source is the easiest way to get a program on your machine, even easier than rpms. If the make bonks see the configure bonking message. Make install should not bonk. Good luck. Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows XP or better'. So I installed Linux!