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- From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Seyon 1.7
- Date: 6 Jan 1993 15:17:16 -0600
- Organization: Kansas State University
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- Message-ID: <1ifi8sINNm7q@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>
- References: <1993Jan6.093737.21073@nwnexus.WA.COM>
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- danubius@halcyon.com (Joseph R. Pannon) writes:
-
- >I've just got Seyon-1.7 on my PC and when I installed it, I was
- >surprised that the tar placed it in a directory branching off directly
- >from the root! Isn't this highly unusual place to install software
- >packages? Many of us actually reserved only a small partition for root
- >and the last things I want to see is getting app packages in there! Is
- >it OK to move that seyon directory under /usr, or somewhere else before
- >I compile the whole thing?
-
- >BTW, the minimal install instructions mention something about running a
- >'Configure' first. That should generate the necessary config.h header
- >file. What is this Configure? The only one I found was a script
- >somewhere in the linux src directory, but that had nothing to do with
- >Seyon. So this sounds Chinese to me right off the bat! ;-)
-
- >Can anybody enlighten me about this?
-
- >.... and I thought linux was "stingy" with documentation! ;-)
-
- >Thanks,
- >Joe Pannon
-
- This may be a little new to you, but that is YOUR system, so you can put
- the packages where you want. Most packages out there shouldn't have
- paths hardcoded into them that are different from normal. Before installing
- something, you should do a
-
- tar -ztvf <tar-file> to see where its going.
-
- James
-