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[Biju Chacko]

On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 23:29, John Pettigrew wrote:
> In a previous message, Amarpreet Rattan <arattan at math.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> 
> > sorry for being a lazy rpm user, but I like to keep my system as rpm based
> > as possible (easier to manage stuff that way).
> 
> To keep your rpm database correct, you can use 'checkinstall' instead of 'make
> install' during the compilation. This compiles and inserts the program into
> the rpm database for you. It's probably supplied with your distro...
> 
> It's quick and dirty - not really recommended if you are going to share the
> rpms, but fine for personal use. The reason is that it doesn't mess around
> getting all the variables set correctly but uses global defaults - this works
> fine on one system but isn't recommended for shared rpms.

All xfce4 tarballs come with spec files, so you can just do a rpmbuild
-ta <tarball-name> which will create an rpm for you which you can
install the regular way.

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Biju 'botsie' Chacko
Red Hat India (http://in.redhat.com)
Core Developer, XFce Desktop Environment (http://www.xfce.org)
Member, BLUG (http://www.linux-bangalore.org)