Converting over to RPM

[Rick Rosinski]

Now that I have had my fun with tarballs, ./configure, make , make install 
ever since I started using Linux (back in 1997), I want to move over to RPM 
to save some time and frustration with management of libs, etc.  So, I began 
with Glade.  The first dependency that the install failed was ld-linux.so.2.  
I ran the locate command (slackware), and found that it was in the /lib 
directory.  I don't want to have to download all of the required rpms and 
install them if most of them may be on my system already.  Of course, I could 
always do rpm --force <rpm pkg>.  This would defeat the purpose of using rpms 
in the first place.  What would be the best way to go about editing the rpm 
database so that it knows what files are where (for those files that I do 
already have?).  Is there a utility that does this?  Do I have to do it 
manually (if I do, how?).

Thanks in advance.  Rick R.


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