On Monday 31 March 2003 04:43 pm, Kirby Clements wrote: > I am having worries over whether or not to install a newer tarball of > software, versus having the older rpm already installed. Does anyone > know the best way to do this, where rpm and the machine itself are not > 'broken' in regard to who thinks what is installed where. The > preference is to install the gzipped tarball into /usr/local/src/blah - > while the older rpm package stays installed, Or, should I just > uninstall the rpm after the newer source has been installed and is > verified to be functioning?
The rpm is certainly easier to install, but if you want to learn how to compile stuff from source, it actually is not that hard. I don't see any harm in doing the compilation of a tar-gziped software yourself, especially if there are new features in the new version that you'd like to try. You can of course keep the rpm version in your machine also. And yes, as you said it, just install the software somewhere in /usr/local. My preference to put software that I compile my self is in /usr/local/software-name, but it really is up to you. Usually you can do this by putting --prefix=<dir> in the configure options after you unzip and untar the program. Reading the README and INSTALL file for that software should get you started. You might want to rename the binary of the software after you install it, so that it won't have the same name as the RPM version, something like: software-version. Then make sure you have the path to the binary in your $PATH variable, or you can just run it by typing the absolute path to the binary, something like: $> /usr/local/software-name/bin/software-version RDB > Kirby -- ------------------------------------------------- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML \ / email and proprietary format X attachments. / \ ------------------------------------------------- Have you been used by Microsoft today? Choose your life. Choose freedom. Choose LINUX. ------------------------------------------------- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
