Subject: Re: Unstuffing and installing
From: Bryan Stillwell (bstill@terraplex.com)
Date: Mon Oct 30 2000 - 12:09:30 MST
Tony, a good place to find those RPMs is off the YDL CD that you used to
install with. Also you can use yup to keep your system up to date and
install packages. You may not have it installed, but try running the
following as root:
yup install autoconf automake gcc
Bryan
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 11:47:25AM -0600, Charles Stevenson wrote:
>The best way to do this with YDL is to use RPMS not tarballs... RPM will put
>the files where they need to go and set the permissions correctly.
>
>`man rpm` ;-)
>
>Regards,
>Charles
>
>On this day, Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Tony Yazbeck wrote:
>>
>> I am slowly but surely making my way into installing,and eventually compling kernels. However, I need to know some very basic things (I sure feel silly asking these things that I do blindly on the MacOS, but anyhow)
>>
>> I d/l the following necessary utilities for compiling a kernel to my root folder:
>>
>> autoconf-2.13.tar.gz
>> automake-1.4.tar.gz
>> gcc-2.95.2.tar.gz
>>
>> I know I have to unstuff and install but Im not sure how or if there is a special folder of doing it right.
>>
>> I appreciate all help.
>>
>> Tony
>>
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