Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Verner Kjærsgaard
[03-15-07 05:40]: [...] This should give you a lot/some files, all located in a directory of their own. Change to this dir. Become root, perhaps by issuing a 'su' Read the README if it's there. Follow whatever instructions are there.
Which will probably result in a borked system. He should utilize 'checkinstall' instead of 'make install' to maintain integrity of his rpm based system. ESPECIALLY since he does not know how to install a tar ball.
As a side note, I often find checkinstall failing, before running make install. That is on *some* packages, I have to do make install; checkinstall; make uninstall, for the RPM to be build. I dont have a specific app in mind, so I can't post the error, just noted that this is sometimes the case. /Sylvester -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org