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Neil Bothwick writes: |
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> On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 06:41:53 +0100, Mick wrote: |
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> > How can I use this on a gentoo machine (I understand that it won't be |
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> > maintained by portage). |
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> Use rpm2targz to turn it into a tarball, then unpack it into your |
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> root filesystem (after first checking the contents). |
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Or into the /usr/local hierarchy to keep the stuff separated - who knows |
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what this would overwrite. I would even consider using xstow for this: |
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emerge xstow |
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rpm2targz packageXXX.el5.i386.rpm |
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mkdir -p /usr/local/stow/packageXXX |
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tar -C /usr/local/stow/packageXXX -xf packageXXX.tgz |
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cd /usr/local/stow |
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xstow packageXXX |
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xtow creates symlinks, so /usr/local/stow/packageXXX/bin/foo will also be |
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found in /usr/local/bin/foo, and so on. To uninstall, just call xstow -D |
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packageXXX from /usr/lcoal/stow, and remove the packageXXX diretory. |
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Wonko |
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