Converting over to RPM

In order to eliminate this confusion, I'd just use Alien to convert .rpm's to .tgz's and then install those.

Rick Rosinski <rick@rickrosinski.com> wrote on 7/17/00 10:32 pm:

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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