[101310] in RedHat Linux List
RE: Installing software on RedHat 5.2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lloyd Sumpter)
Wed Nov 25 14:41:15 1998
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Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 11:35:36 -0800 (PST)
From: Lloyd Sumpter <Lloyd.Sumpter@BCHydro.bc.ca>
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I just install the .tar.gz file like I always did: tar -xzf <filename>
(maybe do a tar -tzf <filename> to see what it will install). This of course
bypasses the rpm database, so you can't subsequently use rpm for queries,
upgrades, etc. But it does install the program.
On 25-Nov-98 Pawan Singh wrote:
> Hi,
>
> All the RedHat installs come as packages. But there is a lot of software out
> there which are not parcelled as a package. For example, if I want to
> install 4.5 Communicator on Linux, it does not come as an RPM file. Is there
> a way to convert "gzip" or "tar" files into packages?
>
> Thanks
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Pawan Singh
> Turnstone Systems, Inc.
> Phone: 650-404-0213
> Email: psingh@turnstonesystems.com
>
>
>
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