Re: [ILUG-BOM] Telling rpm what is installed

Philip wrote:

How do I tell rpm that I have installed some packages from tgz? It refuses to install software that requires these files.

AFAIK, you can't ... unless someone decides to write a utility which will do just that.

The best way is to create an rpm out of the tarball - it's rather straightforward once you get the hang of how to create a spec-file. The only hard part is creating the list of files in it, which specifies what goes into the package. But that can be done by inspecting the output of "make -n install" in the tarball.

SameerDS.

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