On Saturday 12 February 2005 12:54, Kumara wrote:
Generally speaking, a tar.gz file is going to be the srcs, not the executables. To install that will require that you have the 'development' packages installed into your system so that you have the compiler and other tools required to build and install that package on your system
Bear in mind that rpm will have no knowledge of anything installed by this method. That doesn't mean its 1005 bad to do, and ai have quite a bit of stuff so installed on this system.
You can always build an .rpm from the tarball (tar.gz file). If a newbie like me can do it, anyone can. Then just install it with rpm.
