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[Amarpreet Rattan]

just to get this straight.

By 'for dependency reasons' i mean if, for example, I did this with
xfce4-panel (did a 'checkinstall') then if program xxx.rpm REQUIRED
xfce4-panel (not required by xfce4-panel), then
would xxx.rpm know that the program is installed?  I don't mean
dependencies for xfce4-panel, but programs that depend on xfce4-panel.

Also, when you say 'uninstall like any other rpm' do you mean that i just
do a, again for example,

rpm -e xfce4-panel

?  I think you are saying that this will remove the program from the rpm
database and uninstall the program.

well, I didn't know this (there are a lot of things that I don't know ;-) )
it would be great if something like this worked.

amps.

On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, John Pettigrew wrote:

> In a previous message, Amarpreet Rattan <arattan at math.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>
> > I take it that 'checkinstall' only tells the rpm database that the program
> > is installed (for dependency reasons) and from what you appear to be saying
> > it also installs the program (like make install would).
>
> It does everything that make install does, plus inserting the program into the
> rpm database. When doing this, it doesn't set things like the dependencies, so
> it's not ideal if you're wanting to pass it on (i.e. someone might install it,
> think it's worked because there were no dependency issues raised, but have it
> fail). For your own use, though, there's nothing wrong with it because any
> dependency nasties would have cropped up during the compilation.
>
> > Also, is there a 'checkuninstall'
>
> Just uninstall as you would any other rpm installation (using YaST or the
> command line).
>
> > Also, do you know of any resources that I can read that tell my about
> > 'checkinstall'?  I have something called 'max-rpm' a handy little book that
> > i downloaded (seems a bit out of day though).
>
> Erm, I don't know offhand - try a quick search in the net.
>
> HTH
>
> John
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