[101334] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Installing software on RedHat 5.2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Wed Nov 25 15:59:07 1998
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 14:46:33 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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Lloyd Sumpter wrote:
> 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.
And the Netscape 4.5 tar.gz is civilized. It installs everything in
one directory tree, so it is easy to deinstall later.
It is a good idea to rpm -e any Netscapes that did come from rpm,
before you install the one from tar.gz.
>
>
> 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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