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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On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe wrote:
The best way is to create an rpm out of the tarball - it's rather
What do I do about packages already installed?
Philip
Sometime on Sep 20, Parag Mehta assembled some asciibets to say:
try this. it should work.
rpm -Uvh --nodeps --force foo.rpm
Like I mentioned in my first mail, I cannot do this, because I am installing using the RedCarpet installer, which does forces all dependencies before even downloading the packages.
Philip
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