Thanks, between the information you have given me, and that Nathan has given me I think I've got a good chance of getting things to work. I don't know if I'll boot back into Pup 1.0.5 and try it tonight, but if I don't I will tomorrow. After several days of working on it I'm thinking of just surfing tonight. Oh, btw I did try the slackware packages, and they didn't work. The one I tried was GnuPG, and it installed without any problem, but when I tried to run ./gpg it couldn't find a library file it needed.Anonymous wrote:Here's a simple explanation I've found (works for me) for compiling on a Slackware based system:
PACKAGE CREATION
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1. Create the package creation directory
# mkdir -p /pkgcreate/usr/local
2. Unpack the source distribution, configure it
then compile.
... you should be in /pkgcreate (?)
# tar -zxvf foobar-a.b.c.tar.gz (so you now have directory /pkgcreate/foobar-a.b.c )
# cd foobar-a.b.c
# ./configure --prefix=/usr/local (the ultimate destination)
# make
3. 'Install' the created files in the package
creation directory.
# make install prefix=/pkgcreate/usr/local (where you want the intermediate install to go)
4. Build the tarball package
# cd /pkgcreate
# makepkg foobar-a.b.c-i686-1.tgz
(usually follow the suggestions to create symbolic
links via the script and to NOT change ownership
attributes of the files)
5. Presto you have your tarball package! Stow it
away for safekeeping. (when you "installpkg" it will now go into /usr/local)
Hope this helps a bit.
Rgds
GS
vp&ftgs
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