Re: manual .rpm installs

From: RR (rr_at_not.net)
Date: 07/11/04 

Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 04:05:51 GMT

On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 20:54:54 GMT, Gauthic <gauthic@notvalid.add> wrote:

>On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 16:48:33 +0000, RR wrote:
>
>> Question. If I want to do a manual install of a .rpm package,
>> do I need to do anything after the actual rpm command?
>>
>> For example, whenever I install an update using yast and ftp,
>> after the successful download and install yast does a final
>> step where it does something like update the configuration
>> database.
>>
>> So how is this handled when rpm is run from the command line?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> RR
>
>I make it a practice to run 'SuSEconfig' after every package(s) install.
>It ensures that all config files and their permissions are in order.
>
>Running SuSEconfig may be a pain on really slow (ooooooooold) machines
>but newer machines handle it fairly.

Thanks to all who responded.

RR