Mistake installing programs? -Beginner-

[Charles A. Crayne]

On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 17:14:27 -0500
Steven Stern <subscribed-lists at sterndata.com> wrote:

:Typically, a tar.gz download extracts into a directory from which you do a
:"make" followed by a "make install".  The latter puts the programs into
:the "right" locations like /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/sbin, etc.

However, what it does NOT do is to enter the newly installed files into the
RPM database, and therefore, they will not satisfy dependencies for
programs installed with RPM.

-- Chuck