Oliver Ruebenacker wrote:
> If you install software directly from a tarball, rpm will not be
> aware of the installation. How can rpm be made aware of it?
Basically, you need to package the tarball as an rpm and then install
that.
> Is rpm --rebuilddb supposed to always fix the problem?
Nope, that's not what --rebuilddb does.
> Or should I always try to turn the tarball into an rpm file?
Yeah, I would (and do).
> How to do this?
There are more than a few tutorials out there. Here are two links to
documentation written specifically for Fedora that might provide a
good starting point:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/BuildingPackagesGuide
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/drafts/rpm-guide-en/
If you poke around in a few SRPMS, you'll likely get the hang of it
fairly quickly.
HTH,
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