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01-14-2007, 01:53 PM
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Registered: Dec 2006
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question about configure Linux
Please explain for me , How can i make the LINUX Configure. that when we want install the some software in any drive that we want.
For Example : we want install the xmms program in hda5 drive , or ( RPM & DEB ) install at hda5:/progarm/xmms
Are these programs relative to Libraries in LINUX ? and if install the some program that need to Libraries in LINUX, How we can make the Link or Shortcut from libraries that need it ? and put them in itself folder.
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01-14-2007, 01:58 PM
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Registered: Jun 2001
Location: UK
Distribution: Gentoo, RHEL, Fedora, Centos
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long long ago in the days of DOS, Microsoft decided that "A" and "B" would be good ideas for names for floppy disk drives, and that "C" would be good for the first partition on the first hard drive. that was a dumb idea, and has stuck ever since. under UNIX you don't install into certain harddrives, certain partitions, you install to locations on an abstracted file system tree. you can only install on to "hda5" if hda5 happens to contain the directories on your tree at that location, e.g. you are installing software to /usr/local/bin and /usr happens to be on hda5. by asking to install to "hda5:/programs/xmms/ you blatantly want an exact replication of C:\program files\winamp. this is *NOT* how unix, which LONG predates windows works. don't fight against it, work with it and let programs install where they want to install.
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