Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [off-topic] RPM binary on Gentoo
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:25:23
Message-Id: 200904071925.06566.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [off-topic] RPM binary on Gentoo by Alan McKinnon
1 On Monday 06 April 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
2
3 > Correct way: realize you are trying to do something no package manager is
4 > built to do. So, you do it manually. Convert the rpm to a tarball, extract
5 > it and do all install steps manually. It's a good idea to install the
6 > binaries to /usr/local/ or /opt/ - the correct place to put binaries
7 > unknown to a package manger (portage won't nuke them there)
8
9 Thank you all for your advice.
10 --
11 Regards,
12 Mick

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