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bmph8ter
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 Posted: Tue May 07, 2002 2:25 am Post subject: Stupid software question. |
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| I know it is possible to install software that an ebuild doesn't exist for. (Either from sorce or some binaries) But is is recommended? Maybe not even recommended, but will it mess any thing up? I know there won't be a way to uninstall it, but that's OK. I just want to be sure it won't break anything. Thanks. |
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fghellar
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| Posted: Tue May 07, 2002 3:26 am Post subject: |
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Well, it shouldn't.
Have you ever heard of a company releasing a new (version of some) software, but stating "Don't install it, it will break everything"? 
Any serious software will not mess anything up.
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| Posted: Tue May 07, 2002 4:31 am Post subject: |
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| well i get where he's coming from...you want it to conform to the operating system and not screw anything up. |
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bmph8ter
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| Posted: Tue May 07, 2002 4:35 am Post subject: |
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| Yeah, I have heard of it. Alpha and beta come to mind. Something that Linux (and most Linux related) things seem to be in perpetually. That's not necessarily a bad thing, it shows that people are working hard to improve their code. It was just a little difficult for me to get used to. |
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fghellar
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Well, if you want to be really safe, install it only if you can do it as a regular user. If you're not root, you simply can not destroy anything.
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rizzo
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| Posted: Tue May 07, 2002 8:55 pm Post subject: |
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Or better yet, create an ebuild for it.
I'm trying to do one now. Slow going though. I think I'm just dumb. |
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| Posted: Tue May 07, 2002 10:00 pm Post subject: |
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Well from what I read you can compile source then do an emerge -i <false-package> to fake it.
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inject (-i short option)
Add a stub entry for a package so that Portage thinks that it's
installed when it really isn't. Handy if you roll your own
packages. Example:
emerge inject gentoo-sources-2.4.19
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Mr. Atoz
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| Posted: Wed May 08, 2002 3:04 pm Post subject: Re: Stupid software question. |
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| bmph8ter wrote: | | I I know there won't be a way to uninstall it, but that's OK. |
Actualy, many apps that you download and compile from source DO have an uninstall.
Compile/Install:
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cd {directory where source is untared}
./configure --? (This will show you the standard and any special configure parameters.)
make
make install
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cd {directory where source is untared}
make uninstall
(or possibly 'make deinstal'l)
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Hope that helps...
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| Posted: Wed May 08, 2002 6:43 pm Post subject: Wanted apps repository ?? |
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By the way, for those who don't know, don't have time or tried and feel ashame, it would be cool to have a repository (php website) where people vote for the most wanted ebuilds...
[My choice: unison file synchronizer (and lib lablgtk), zoggy, lablgl (all this would benefit from a caml class), djvu.sourceforge.net, jedit, kde connectiva icons, ...] |
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