Unless you need something specific from a package, you wil suffer less
frustration if you install the production (non-development) releases.
hth,
kf
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On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Manuel A. Camacho Q. wrote:
= Dear friends:
=
= I am not a computer scientist, so I have always done my installations
= with the binaries packaged with RH releases. I always get the source
= CDs, which I colect as esoteric objects in my closet.
=
= Now, I want to recompile as much software as possible to improve my
= system. I guess I should make a custom install selecting only the
= development packages, and then install the source RPMs and recompile
= them. What I don't know how to do is to compiling from SRPMs. Can
= someone point me on how to overcome this?
=
= TIA,
=
= -Manuel.
=
= P.D.: I have compiled some sources from tarballs before.
=
=
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