Oliver Ruebenacker writes: > Dear friends, > > If you install software directly from a tarball, rpm will not be > aware of the installation. How can rpm be made aware of it? > > Is rpm --rebuilddb supposed to always fix the problem? What if it does not? > > Or should I always try to turn the tarball into an rpm file? How to do this? > > Thank you! > > Take care > Oliver > > -- > Oliver Ruebenacker, Post-Doc Researcher > Theoretical Biological Physics and Soft Statistical Mechanics > Cell Biology at UConn Health Center and Physics at Harvard > http://people.deas.harvard.edu/~oliver/ > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Oliver, first of all use rpm package if available. If not, then there is a tool that does rpm from tar ball. its name is checkinstall (http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/download.php) How to use it: 1) untar You source code 2) ./configure ...with options You like.... 3) make 4) checkinstall #. instead of make install. Pawel
