How to update/override packages? 2005-11-09 - By Paul N
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This is a great experiment. I'll tell you what *I* think, and then
I'll get smacked down by people who know better, and we'll both learn
something!
Usually when you run ./configure on a source package, it will
configure it for /usr/local, while most of the stuff is put in /usr
these days.
So, a few things:
Check the /etc/ld.so.conf file for the locations where the system
expects library files. If you're installing such a thing, I usually
will tell it ./configure --prefix=/usr (or whatever you need for
that), and then run ldconfig as the root user after you do that.
ldconfig will update what the system sees.
Another thing, some libraries don't make the shared files by default
(or don't install them). Check the README on them for more help, but I
believe there is a configure option for that.
Now that I've confused you - can someone else help? :D
Paul
On 11/9/05, Thom DeCarlo <t.r.decarlo@(protected)> wrote:
> What is the right way to update and/or override packages that are provided
> by Redhat, but are horribly out of date? For example, the TIFF library in
> the RHEL3 distro is version 3.5.7, while the current release is version
> 3.7.3. Also, OpenOffice is at release 2.0, but Redhat is only distributing
> version 1.2. And PostgreSQL v8.1.0 was just released; who knows how long
> Redhat will take to get that into the distro, if ever.
>
> These are only a couple examples of many that I need to update in order to
> begin transitioning my MS Windows apps to Linux. I recently tried to update
> the gtk+ libraries so I could update gimp and it really mucked up my system.
> It is at all possible to get new versions of these packages?
>
> Thanks for helping a newbie!
> Thom
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