quick question about installing from source

weimond · 09-19-2005, 01:00 PM

i had to install ALSA from source because my sound wasn't working. before i removed the alsa packages using removepkg, they would show up in the installed package list using

ls /var/log/packages

and pkgtool, but after i ./configure make make installed alsa lib, alsa driver and alsa utils, and got my sound working. i tried ls /var/log/packages again but those three i just installed didn't show up. nor did they show up using pkgtool. why is that? do i have to update something?

uselpa · 09-19-2005, 01:35 PM

What you see in /var/log/packages/* is Slackware packages installed through the "installpkg" command. If you compile from source, you bypass these.

weimond · 09-19-2005, 02:19 PM

so if it doesn't show up will i still be able to use removepkg with it? and how will i know what to type after the removepkg command? is it the same reason for pkgtool?

jong357 · 09-19-2005, 02:35 PM

Nope. In order to use 'removepkg' you have to 'installpkg' first....

EyesOnly · 09-19-2005, 02:43 PM

You can quite easaly create your own packages from the self-compiled software whit 'makepkg'; It makes updating/removing of software on your computer a lot easier.

like so (or google a bit more, there are quite a lot of these howto's..