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[Christofer C. Bell]

On Fri, 26 May 2000, Jason Fruge wrote:

> Installing applications 80% of the time consists of
> downloading the tarball and unpacking it (tar zxvf
> tarball.tgz) then entering the souce code dir and type ./ or
> sh configure (./configure) then 'make' then 'make install
> (as root)' then 'make clean(if you want to keep the source
> code)'

Actually, 95% of the time, installing software on an RPM based
distribution consists of:

# rpm -Uvh package.rpm

And nothing more.

-- 
Chris