OT? Installing foreign package as rpm

[Mike McCarty]

Pedro Fernandes Macedo wrote:
> Mike McCarty wrote:
> 
>> Also, in this particular case, the FC4 RPM might just
>> work, anyway. But I think the information on how to
>> install as RPMs is applicable to most foreign packages
>> and most/all versions of FC.
>>
> If you have the FC4 src.rpm, install it and try to rebuild it for FC2... 
> I'll surelly need some poking and editing, but it may be easy to do...
> After you install the src.rpm with rpm -ivh , just go to /usr/src/redhat 
> (that's usually where it's placed, unless you have configured your 
> .rpmrc) and search for the .spec file.. Do some tweaking, then try do 
> build with rpmbuild -ba something.spec... Keep doing that until it works ;)
> Usually if you can manually build the software through the old 
> configure, make , make install routine, it should be fairly easy to make 
> the spec of a "future" version work on an older version.

Thanks for the pointers. I think I'll give the "checkinstall"
procedure, and if that doesn't do all I want, then I'll try
doing what you suggest.

Mike
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