On 28 Mar 2002 18:09:57 -0800 Gordon Messmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quietly intimated:
> On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 08:51, Ismael Touama wrote: > > > > I don't uinderstand one (and more...) thing in Linux implementation. > > Are all softwares installed as RPMs ? or is there another issue. > > Not necessarily. You may compile software from source and install it > with the standard (./configure; make; make install) build method. > However, software installed without the package manager (rpm) don't > get any of its benefits. > > If you install from source, you can not verify the files using rpm -V. > You also can't remove them using rpm -e. > > Most software "makefiles" have a rule to uninstall the software. If > you still have the source tree around, you can 'cd' there and 'make > uninstall'. I would suggest, if you want to be able to have the benefits of RPMs without the muss and fuss, get checkinstall (freshmeat, some other places) and use it to make RPMs of binaries created with the make/make install process. I wouldn't depend on them redistributable. But it certainly makes management of installed programs easier to deal with, and you won't have to wait for somebody else to create an RPM just to install something that can easily be cleaned up. In addition, there's no need to keep the source tree around just to uninstall the files. There are a few (very few) instances when this won't work either. But it works in enough, and it's so simple to work with, it's certainly worth a test drive. > > I had probleme with MM siftware (brahms) and in fact I don't have > > any needs of multimedia player,viewer, listener... on my server. > > I'm not sure I follow that statement. Red Hat Linux includes xmms for > playing mp3 and ogg files (among others...). If you want to view > video files, your best bet is to install xine or mplayer. You can > find them on http://freshmeat.net. Xine provides rpm packages for RHL > 7.2. > > > So when rpm -qa | grep brahms -> nothing found > > That's to be expected if you compiled the software yourself. > > > I know I made a bad installation in the sense I installedll packages > > from the CD... > > but I run a server !! So what's the matter ?! Can it be swap proc > > system ? > > Not following this either. Installing packages from the CD is a > proper way to install software. What do you mean by 'swap proc > system'? > > > By the way lets comme to my first problem How can i uninstall a > > program or a soft > > that rpm -qa | grep thisFprogram don't find... > > You don't. rpm manages software installed or packages in rpm format. > If you compile it yourself, you have to manage it yourself, too. See > if the software provides for 'make uninstall'. -- If at first you don't succeed, get a job with Microsoft. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
