Guest CrypticalCat Posted August 27, 2003 Report Share Posted August 27, 2003 Are there any good resources to learn about installing non-RPM applications? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MottS Posted August 27, 2003 Report Share Posted August 27, 2003 I guess you are talking about .tar.gz (the source) here. In each packages, they tell you which other package is required (dependencies) and how to actually compile/install it. Usually, you only have to extract the content of the .tar.gz (just type 'tar xvfz PackageName.tar.gz') and read the INSTALL.txt and README.txt. The usuall procedure is ./configure (configure the source according to your system) make (compile the source. Ie create binaries) make install (install the binaries) Download one package and try! .. try to start with an easy app first though. MOttS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtweidmann Posted August 27, 2003 Report Share Posted August 27, 2003 The "make install" is optional as it moves the compiled and built software into the right place on your system path. Otherwise you will only be able to run the software from where you compiled it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted August 27, 2003 Report Share Posted August 27, 2003 ./configure and make should be done as a regular user. you may also want to add the --prefix=/usr switch to the ./configure, making it: ./configure --prefix=/usr meanwhile: make install must be run as root. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted August 27, 2003 Report Share Posted August 27, 2003 You forgot "make clean." :wink: Anyway here's a very good tutorial that explains each step of the installation. http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/softinstall.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmack Posted August 27, 2003 Report Share Posted August 27, 2003 Another thing I learned from this site is to use checkinstall which makes a rpm file out of the source code so it is easier to uninstall if you want to do so later. http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php...ht=checkinstall is a good link on this. To install the checkinstall program, you need two rpm's: checkinstall and libcheckinstall which are readily available online via urpmi. Here's another link with info on checkinstall: http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php...ht=checkinstall Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CrypticalCat Posted August 27, 2003 Report Share Posted August 27, 2003 Thanks guys, I didn't expect all these responses, but they are appreciated. I think I got enough here to get me started. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted August 28, 2003 Report Share Posted August 28, 2003 Are there any good resources to learn about installing non-RPM applications?This might help you:http://mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php?t=1617 Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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