mdemers883 Posted February 3, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2004 yeah, rpm's are much easier. You're also on an rpm-based distro and things are diff. Usually not a prob but rpm's made for you distro will include stuff for the distro like menu entries and knowlegde that the app/version is even installed so not to mess up stuff. If you have to do a tarball check out checkinstall. It'll make and install a rpm from a tarball eliminating these probs and making it easy to remove. To put it simply, if you try a pkg on a suse cd and it works, great...it's easier, if not, try a suse mirror. Dependencies for gftp shouldn't be too bad. If you have the temporary hd space or want ot try to go straight to a cd, consider wget. It's a terminal downloader. wget -r <url> will get every, I mean recurse through directories and get everything at that url. wget -r --level=2 <url> will only download that current directory and recurse to one other. SEE: wget --help or man wget Then you'll have everything available for the distro version on cd :D Just a thought. thanks for elaborating :D Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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