How to use installpkg on .bz2 files???

friendklay · 09-19-2004, 05:39 PM

Dear Gurus,
I am running Slackware 10, and just downloaded all the Gnome 2.8 packages using .bz2 instead of .tgz.

It seems installpkg can only use .tgz and not .bz2 files. What do I do now? Compile them manually? Please help

Bruce Hill · 09-19-2004, 06:20 PM

Yes. First you untar them with tar -xvjf <packagename.bz2>
Then cd to the directory that makes and run as normal user
./configure
make
su -c "make install"

or you can d/l checkinstall and use it. With checkinstall you issue
./configure
make
su -c "checkinstall" (rather than make install)
and it will create a Slack package for you. So if you want to
uninstall the program, you can use removepkg.

Edit: NB: Before installing with ./configure; make; checkinstall (or make install)
you should read the README and INSTALL files in the package directory.

friendklay · 09-20-2004, 04:48 AM

I seemed to have installed the following packages manually without using checkinstall. I wish to be able to uninstall them easily. Can I just intall it again with checkinstall or do I have to remove these before I use checkinstall? Thanks of the help. The following are the packages that I have alredy installed.

pkgconfig-0.15.0

libxml2-2.6.13

libxslt-1.1.10

gtk-doc-1.2

glib-2.4.6

libIDL-0.8.4

Bruce Hill · 09-20-2004, 04:56 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by friendklay
I seemed to have installed the following packages manually without using checkinstall. I wish to be able to uninstall them easily. Can I just intall it again with checkinstall or do I have to remove these before I use checkinstall?

I just had this dialog with a real "Slackware guru" 5 days ago. Here it is:

Quote:

> I guess what I'm wondering is, if I uninstall later will it remove
> what was originally installed, since checkinstall does the same
> thing? In other words, is checkinstall going to "overwrite" the
> original installation?

That's right. Checkinstall basically puts a "wrapper"
around "make install", redirects files to a temporary
directory structure, puts them in a tgz and THEN installs
them where make install put them in the first place.

So the answer is YES, if you install them now issuing "checkinstall"
rather than "make install" then afterwards you can issue
"removepkg <packagename>" to uninstall them.