Re: [Evolution] strange changes

[Ralf Steinmeyer <steinmeyer botanik uni-wuerzburg de>]

On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 15:50, Paul Harouff wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 13:35, Kathy ODriscoll wrote:
> > And I have tried the configure make make install thing, doesnt work for
> > me the way it does for the rest of the linux community...yet anyway
>
> I found that recent distributions don't work well unless you install new
> applications with RPM files. The ./configure, make, make install
> procedure doesn't update the dependency databases which screws up all
> the other applications.
>
> Sometimes, really good/generous programmers will include a *.spec file
> in the package. If you see a file named programname.spec you can create
> your own RPM. With SuSE you have to make some modifications. But, in
> your case they are usually written for RH so you don't have to worry.
>
> Procedure for using *.spec file (I'm not used to RH, so someone can
> proofread this for me and make corrections if necessary):
>
> > mkdir /usr/local/packages/programname
>
> download programname-0.0.0.tar.gz to /usr/local/packages/programname
> I use /usr/local/packages to help me keep track of what modifications I
> have made to the system from 3rd party source files.
>
> > cd /usr/local/packages/programname
> > tar xzvf programname-0.0.0.tar.gz
If there is a .spec file in the package, the procedure is even more
easy:
rpmbuild -tb programname-0.0.0.tar.gz
will (if your're lucky) build the programname-0.0.0.i386.rpm ans save it
in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/
New rpm versions don't have the rpm -b (for building packages) anymore,
it's split to the separate rpmbuild program. Both are capable of
building directly out of a tar file archive by using the -t option
instead of -b. 

Hope this helps
 Ralf