cardassianscot Posted November 28, 2003 Report Share Posted November 28, 2003 Hope this is the right forum for this, if not appologies. I have compiled some software (kopete) on my machine at home but now want to install it to about 7 computers at work. I assume that it is possible to install these compiled programs onto these machines but I am unsure how. Obviously, I don't want to compile the programs on the new machines (besides taking way to long a decent machine these are ancient beasts that would take an eternity plus they don't have the hard-disk space for it) so how can install them without recompiling them. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted November 28, 2003 Report Share Posted November 28, 2003 Depending on how the compilation was linked it is possible to just move the directory across and it magically works - of course it probably won't be linked like this.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cardassianscot Posted November 28, 2003 Author Report Share Posted November 28, 2003 Afraid not. It needs to install to standard KDE directories to work properly. Although I suppose I could copy the entire KDE directories over but surely there's a better way than this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted November 28, 2003 Report Share Posted November 28, 2003 Yeah Copy the source directory and stick it on the new machine and then do a make install (you obviously don't need the source part, just the compiled stuff but kopete must be tiny so its probably eaiser to just stick everything. (However it still need the linking to be the same and the libraries to be present which were checked when you ran the configure..... the make install won't actually check.... if it doesn't you can run the configure and work out what's missing and then manually urpmi the libraries.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cardassianscot Posted November 28, 2003 Author Report Share Posted November 28, 2003 OK, thanks. I rather foolishly thought you had to have the compiler and stuff installed to have make installed. Obviously since I now checked you don't. Thanks again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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