Distro: Centos 5, Fedora 13

Hi all.

If i am installing softwares through rpm, i can later query to see which softwares are installed on my system (using rpm). But if i have installed any softwares from source (using tar, /.configure method), how can i list those softwares to see which one are installed ?

Thanks in advance

rpm -qai | grep ^Name | awk '{print $3}'
check 'man rpm' for more information

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Dear Sir,

I didnt get it, if i havent installed the package using rpm, how can it show me with rpm command ?

So, did you install things using rpm or no?

Dear Sir,

Lets say i installed rdesktop from source. Now over time to time i might install other softwares from source (not rpm). Now if i want to see what softwares are installed on my system (using source and not rpm) how can i check it ?

You can't, unless you keep the source files you installed in a separate directory.
That's why you better use the package manager.
There are however tools to install source packages via the package manager.
Slackware has src2pkg
There is checkinstall
http://www.asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/
You could also build rpm's from tar files
http://freshrpms.net/docs/fight/

Kind regards

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This is one (of many) reasons NOT to install directly from source. As far as I know there is no easy clean way to see what (source) pacages you have installed.

Once you learn how to build an rpm(and get the system set up for it), building rpms is about as difficult as installing from source. Going forward just take the extra step and build the rpm. Then install your own rpm via a yum localinstall.

The big question is WHY are you installing from source in the first place? The vast majority of software (rdesktop comes to mind) is already available in the common repos for Centos and Fedora's repos are even better stocked.

Is there any easy way to build rpm from source files ? i am using Centos/Fedora 13

Kindly guide me

Is there any easy way to build rpm from source (tar) files ? i am using Centos/Fedora 13

Kindly guide me

First read this:

Particullarly the Caveats section.

Again WHY and what do you need to build from source?

It took a while to track down the howtos:

To setup your system:

To build:

These are just two of MANY howtos available via the net.

Again, I STRONGLY recommend not building from source on an rpm based system.

...and if the tarball contains a .spec file you can do something like 'rpmbuild -tb tarballname.tar.gz'.