Yes, you sure did miss something. I had problem with LILO from RedHat and
knew from prior experience that SlackWare's lilo doesn't do any problems and
their configurator for lilo. So, I downloaded this tarball as you called it
which is really designed for slackware because it's from their installation
CD, and tried to install it, ".tgz" files are sometimes the RPM of Slackware.
thats why i tried to convert it to ".RPM".
Noam Meltzer
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
> Noam,
>
> RTFM stands for "Read The Fucking Manual". Frankly, adopting that as
> your basic principle of behaviour is what you must do before you start
> tinkering with your Linux system. It is not a program, or a package
> manager, or a web browser, typing it at the console won't help, et
> caetera.
>
> What you downloaded is not a "package", but what is commonly known as
> "tarball". It has nothing to do with Slackware, or Linux, tgz is
> simply a common extension for files that have been archived with tar
> and compressed with gzip. It is simply the archived distribution of
> the program. If you got it from a half-reputable place, it should
> contain all the sources and all the documents. My guess is that you
> should untar the file somewhere, e.g. with
>
> tar zxvf lilo.tgz
>
> and then cd to the top directory of the distribution. You will
> probably see there files named README or INSTALL or both. Just read
> them (that's what RTFM means), and do what they say. In all
> probability, the installation procedure will consist of configure,
> make, and make install, but I cannot be sure of that.
>
> What I don't understand is why you don't get the RPM and install it,
> if you have Red Hat 6.1? Well. maybe I missed something in the thread.
>
> Noam Meltzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
> >
> > > Noam Meltzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
> > > > Ok, I downloaded the package (lilo.tgz).
> > >
> > > So what are you trying to do with it? I presume it is the full
> > > package, so you should read the docs and do whatever is needed to
> > > build and install it. it looks like you are trying to guess what
> > > will work (I can't think of a reason to use alien on it, for
> > > instance). Don't guess, RTFM.
> >
> > Yes, it is the full package, which is originally designed for Slackware
> > install.
> > What I was trying to do with it is installing it, but I really don't
> > know how. This why I tried to use alien.
> > I guess RTFM is a management program for RPMs or something like that,
> > which supports also .tgz files (slackware). When I typed RTFM in the
> > console it claims I don't have that program. So I searched in
> > www.linuxberg.com and http://linux.box.sk and didn't find nothing in my
> > search (for RPFM). Then I tried to use "kpackage" but everytime I tried
> > to open the file (lilo.tgz) the program just crashed or something
> > (disapeared from my screen without any pre-warning)
> >
> > Noam Meltzer
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > UIN: 4853872
>
> --
> Oleg Goldshmidt | BLOOMBERG L.P. (BFM) | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> "A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out
> unequally at birth." [F. Scott FitzGerald]
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