"Thomas A. Gardiner" <gardiner_at_pas.rochester.edu> writes:
> I was wondering if I might ask you just a few more questions
> regarding how you got around this problem. You see I'm trying not
> to stray too far from using the Red Hat Package Manager, in hopes
> to simplify my life in the future when things (inevitibly) go
> wrong. My questions are simple. I take it you compiled the
> recent fvwm2-2.2.2 release. Did you install the files by hand or
> did you find the install paths set up properly, allowing you to
> just execute the install command?
I think what you should do is to choose a different directory for
installing your own programs. If you choose one directory per
program, it is very simple to delete the program afterwards. If you
include the version number in the directory, you can even install two
versions of the same program, try them both, and when you have decided
which one to use, delete the other one.
One of the steps in compiling and installing fvwm is to run the
configure script. You can just tell it where you want your fvwm to be
installed. Suppose you decide to install your own software in
/usr/sw, then the following will install fvwm 2.2.3:
./configure --prefix=/usr/sw/fvwm/2.2.3 <<other configure args>>
make
make install
This will create a directory /usr/sw/fvwm/2.2.3/bin which you need to
add to $PATH: export PATH=/usr/sw/fvwm/2.2.3/bin:$PATH. Similar for
/usr/sw/fvwm/2.2.3/man and $MANPATH.
That's it!
Installing a new version 2.3.1 is as simple as giving the right
directory name to configure. Deleting a version is as simple as "rm
-rf /usr/sw/fvwm/2.2.3".
kai
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Received on Wed Jun 09 1999 - 06:39:53 BST