Have you tried running rpm --update-db? Did you check the man pages? If I weren't in Ft. Bragg right now I'd probably be a little more helpful, sorry... HTH -----Original Message----- From: Barnett, Blake [mailto:bbarnett@bloodsystems.org] Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 12:31 PM To: 'plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us' Subject: RE: Converting over to RPM You may want to find out what the rpm is looking for, it may be looking for files based on the redhat directory structure. (ie. /lib/library.so = /usr/lib/library.so) and some linking would take care of it.. Otherwise, I think editing the rpm database would also be defeating the purpose. Or perhaps a better question to ask is what the differences in directory structure are between redhat and slackware? Is using rpms going to be more pain than it's worth? Maybe dpkg would work smoother with slackware. Homework time I guess. Maybe rpm should use ./configure.. *snicker* * Blake -----Original Message----- From: Rick Rosinski [mailto:rick@rickrosinski.com] Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 10:32 PM To: PLUG Subject: Converting over to RPM 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 . 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. -- Rick Rosinski http://rickrosinski.com rick@rickrosinski.com _______________________________________________ Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss _______________________________________________ Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss