patching
 

hey everybody

i down a program (source code)and install it on my machine mandrake 9.1


i have the patch for that program and i want to install it
how i go about patching my installation

thanks

typically -

tar -zxf package.tar.gz
cd package
patch -Np1 < ../file.patch

thanks i'll try that

if it doesn't work - try -Np0 instead.