control-alt-delete

[Amarpreet Rattan]

ahhhh, this seems like the best way.

thanks, amps

On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Biju Chacko wrote:

> 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.
>
> -- b
>
> --
> 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)
>
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