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- From: andrewc@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !)
- Subject: Re: Seyon 1.7
- Message-ID: <andrewc.726396120@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au>
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- Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
- References: <1993Jan6.093737.21073@nwnexus.WA.COM> <1ifi8sINNm7q@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 08:42:00 GMT
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- probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon) writes:
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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
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- >tar -ztvf <tar-file> to see where its going.
-
- Besides that, I don't think it was hardcoded - tar usually strips the leading
- slash to make it relative
- - you don't HAVE to untar to the directory, as was said above...
- all it means is that it creates a seyon directory below the current directory
- - it's best to untat somewhere else for source
- (eg. make a /usr/src dir. and untar from there)
-
- Happy tarring and Seyoning !
- (I hope 1.7 works for me - it hasn't worked for me since about version 0.5...)
-
- Cos !
-
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