After a long battle with technology, der.hans wrote:
> Am 05. Mai, 2008 schwatzte Josef Lowder so:
>> My system is Mandriva 2006 so I don't think apt-get will work and
>> I do not have Synaptic on this system.
Package management has probably improved a lot on later Mandrake releases.
>> So, I wonder if they meant I was supposed to extract the tarball in
>> '/' rather than '/root' ... and I wonder if there is any risk in
>> trying to do that since there are already existing directories by
>> the same names in the top '/' directory.
I did this last week for a package that has no Gentoo ebuild. rpm2targz
followed by extracting the tarball to / , and it worked.
> I'm certain they mean /. I consider that to be bad form.
It is bad form.
> If you're going to just extract it, then extract it in /usr/local instead.
> After extracting into /usr/local you might need to run ldconfig to make
> sure your system knows about new libraries. You might also need to adjust
> your PATH to include /usr/local/bin
Running ldconfig is a good idea, but normal users' PATHs should already
include /usr/local/bin/ . What you'll probably have to do is manually move
some stuff around after you unpack the tarball in /usr/local/ , since the
tarball will probably extract some things to /usr/local/usr/bin/
and /usr/local/usr/lib/ , which is obviously not right.
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