Neorion Posted March 29, 2004 Report Share Posted March 29, 2004 2 part question OK When i double click rpms install to. When i make / makefile where do the files go? -Neorion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted March 30, 2004 Report Share Posted March 30, 2004 Depends on the program. For rpms, you can open a console and, as root, do this: rpm -ql <<name of rpm without the .i586.rpm part, or whatever>> (that's a lowercase L) and it will tell you all the files the rpm installs. Executables are usually placed in /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /bin, or /sbin. Alot of times, programs installed from *.tar.gz files are placed into /usr/local/bin or /usr/local/sbin unless you tell your configure script to place them somewhere else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neorion Posted March 30, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2004 (edited) Whats is the teminal syntax to make it install somewhere else (rpms)(and .src). And if i do this will it cause it not to work correctly because of the location? Edited March 30, 2004 by Neorion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted March 30, 2004 Report Share Posted March 30, 2004 (edited) for tarball's with a configure, cd into one and do ./configure --help to install somewhere other than the default /usr/local for a tarball do; ./configure --prefix=/where_you/want_it usually for an rpm-based distro you'd do; ./configure --prefix=/usr or edit the Makefile for a make make install edit the Makefile for an install.sh? I'm not sure....probably in it, or a Makefile Edited March 30, 2004 by bvc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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