Re: newbie question about installing software

[Kai Raven <k raven freenet de>]

Hello James,

On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 13:05:19 -0600 you wrote:

> I think I need something that describes what each install-type is,
> why you'd use one before the other,
> and then how to 'usually' go about doing each type of install.
 
I prefer installations in the following order:

1. from source (*.tar.gz,*.tar.bz2,*.tgz), because so i can influence
the building process and the adaption to my system completely.
The steps are always the same:
.a) read the documentation in the archives
b) ./configure --help
./configure --options
./make
c) use of checkinstall to build RPM packages
d) rpm -ivh build.rpm

2. from RPM source packages with
rpmbuild --rebuild or 
a) rpm -ivh package.src.rpm 
- the source is in /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
- the spec file in /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
to make changes in the spec file and than
b) rpmbuild -ba /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/*.spec
c) rpm -ivh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/archtype
(i have modified the rpmrc file to build always for my athlon arch)

3. with rpm -ivh package.rpm for precompiled RPM packages.

Ciao
Kai

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