Philip S Tellis [Wed Sep 19, 2001 at 12:33:59PM +0530]:
How do I tell rpm that I have installed some packages from tgz? It refuses to install software that requires these files. With rpm, I can use nodeps, but with redcarpet, I cannot. RedCarpet requires all dependencies to be met.
Philip
Try using checkinstall. What it does is that once you have installed checkinstall, whenever you build a package from a tarball what you need to do is do a
./configure checkinstall make checkinstall make install (or checkinstall setup or whatever)
it will build the rpm (or .deb or slackware ; this is user configurable.) package and install it as an rpm thus also updating your rpm database. A sleek extra is that you now have a readymade .rpm or .deb that you can install directly on another machine if you want to.
reagrds, hth,
Sharukh.