Re: [SLE] Installation of additional software in Suse

From: Leendert Meyer (leen.meyer_at_home.nl)
Date: 03/18/05

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Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:13:59 +0100

    On Friday 18 March 2005 15:56, Sid Boyce wrote:
    > Chaitanya Krishna A wrote:
    > > hi all,
    > >
    > > thanks for the help on the migration from centos to
    > > suse.
    > >
    > > i am research student, so i frequently need to install
    > > software related to my work from the sources (the
    > > usual thing of making and compiling).
    >
    > Good on you.
    >
    > > as i'm new to suse, i want to know how easy it is
    > > build from sources and install software with suse. it
    > > would be nice if anyone would clarify on these points.
    > > i am planning to use suse 9.1 professional version on
    > > my machine.
    > >
    > > 1. is it possible to install additional software which
    > > comes as source and not as rpms?
    >
    > Much the same way as in any distro apart from gentoo which additionally
    > has emerge, though you can do normal installs on gentoo also.
    > You can do the normal"make install" or use "checkinstall" which will
    > generate a RPM so you can install or upgrade a package and keep the RPM
    > database honest.
    >
    > > 2. can yast be useful in the above respect?
    >
    > Yes, you can point YaST at a local directory to install or update RPM's
    > you have built.

    Sid: I'm afraid you did not understand question 1. completely.

    YaST can be helpfull when installing rpm packages.

    YaST cannot be helpfull when *purely* installing from source.

    As the OP is talking about source, and specifically excludes rpms in question
    1., IMO the answer to question 2. has to be: No. ;)

    > > 3. as far as i know, yast normally updates the
    > > softwares based on the updates provided by suse. in
    > > case the software that i need is not provided by suse,
    > > then what do i do?
    >
    > The stuff above covers that. Treat any distro as Linux and you already
    > know the basics, the differences lie mainly in where they choose as
    > default install locations, e.g SuSE uses /opt/kde3 configure prefix,
    > Mandrake uses /usr and gentoo /usr/kde/3.x I think, the tools they use
    > are also different and easy to get used to. The apt4RPM is much the same
    > as apt in Debian and apt4RPM on RedHat. I have SuSE 9.2 x86 and x86_64,
    > Mandrake 10.1 and gentoo installed on separate boxes. I have no trouble
    > installing from sources on any of them.

    See http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/, and
    http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/9.1-i386/

    The latter contains apt 9.1-i386 repositories, RPMS.* contain .i?86.rpm's,
    SRPMS.* contain the .src.rpm's.

    Tip: if you decide to use apt, start with only a few repositories (base,
    security and update). Only add repositories if you need them.

    Cheers,

    Leen 

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