On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 03:42:22PM +0000, Manon Metten wrote: > On 6/9/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ... I used mc (midnight commander) > >to poke into the rpm just as if (maybe it is) a tarball and installed > >everything under /usr/local. This was before /opt was in the hier. > > > >Now that /opt is in the hier, I would suggest that you would install the > >whole shebang manually under /opt/$PACKAGENAME which makes removal later > >much easier. > > I have a long way to go before I am that far. > But I have already adapted to the habit of installing such packages in /opt. > In fact, I have a separate partition for /opt.
Using mc is dead simple. On one panel, cd to the target directory; if it doesn't exist, cd to the parent, hit F7 and enter the name, then cd. You can also use lynx-like directories. To open up the .rpm, just move the cursor to it and hit enter; it then appears to be its own filesystem. Find the directory you want and hit F5 to copy it over. Wow, you need a whole partition for /opt! What all packages have you needed for which there isn't a deb? Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
