On Wednesday 09 May 2007 9:42:58 am Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 09 May 2007, Mike McCarty wrote: > > Pawel wrote: > > > 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! > > > > > > 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. > > > > I have used checkinstall exactly three times, and it has failed > > for me exactly three times, leaving me with a difficult to clean > > mess. > Strange. I and many others have used it several times, and never had a > problem with it. Could it be that we accept defaults, and you change some > of the options? If so, I wonder which options are dangerous. Try adding this when running checkinstall "--fstrans=no" I use checkinstall quite a lot with no problems with the above command. from the Changelog: *1.6.0beta3 * Added a command line option: "--fstrans". It will allow you to enable or disable the filesystem translation code. It is enabled by default. HTH Colin -- Fedora Core 6 ("Zod") KDE-Redhat-3.5.6-4.fc6 Registered Linux user number #342953
