[101346] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Installing software on RedHat 5.2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bsc@klondike.ml.org)
Wed Nov 25 16:45:14 1998
From: bsc@klondike.ml.org
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 13:43:41 -0800
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In-Reply-To: <365C5E99.5AF6BE56@iname.com>; from Jan Carlson on Wed, Nov 25, 1998 at 02:46:33PM -0500
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On Wed, Nov 25, 1998 at 02:46:33PM -0500, Jan Carlson wrote:
> > > 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?
>
> Lloyd Sumpter wrote:
>
> And the Netscape 4.5 tar.gz is civilized. It installs everything in
> one directory tree, so it is easy to deinstall later.
Yes, the tarball and resulting installation script are very nice. It
seems that version 4.5 even fixed the "cannot start Java" configuration
problem I'd had with every version up to it.
>
> It is a good idea to rpm -e any Netscapes that did come from rpm,
> before you install the one from tar.gz.
While this may be good advice for those unwilling to do a bit of
tinkering, I'd say it is unneccessary. I have two versions of Netscape
currently on my system and, aside from the "this is the first time you've
used Netscape" messages I get whenever I go from one version to the other,
everything works great.
I have the new version (4.5) as a symbolic link somewhere in my PATH
(/usr/local/bin), while 4.03 sits in /opt/netscape4.03. If I need to
run the new version, all I need do is type:
netscape &
If I need to run the older version, I type:
/opt/netscape4.03/netscape &
I have two versions because I found the newsreader in 4.5Beta to be
broken. The newsreader in 4.5 seems to be fixed and now I have two
versions because I'm lazy.
Blair.
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