On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 16:59:49 -0500, "Bradley (FC2 List)" <FedoraList@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >I think I may have made a mistake installing some programs. >Not knowing that some programs were available and should be installed from >Add/Remove Applications, I installed some programs with targz files. I put >them in a folder, home/user/downloads/ and installed from there. > Does this mean that they are running from there and are in the wrong >place, or do they install themselves in the proper directories? >I am trying to install development tools so I can have gdesklets but can't >do that now because some apps are missing even though yum says they are >installed. The programs that Add/Remove Appilcations can't find are >cyrus-sasl, libuser, and xorg-x11-libs. > >Also, I keep getting errors to adjust my PKG_CONFIG_PATH but can't seem to >find it. Can someone tell me where to look? I'm not really sure what it is. > Typically, a tar.gz download extracts into a directory from which you do a "make" followed by a "make install". The latter puts the programs into the "right" locations like /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/sbin, etc. Afterwards, you can remove the extracted directory. I then put the .tar.gz files into a "installs" directory. For the others, try opening a terminal windows, su'ing to root, and using up2date cyrus-sasl -- Steve
