EMC RPM

["bfp" <bfp-at-earthlink.net>]

just a quick note

anyone not using redhat or one of the redhat clone distros
may want to check the
RPM-HOWTO 
and 
RPM+Slackware Mini-Howto (covers most other distros as well)
at
http://www.linuxdoc.org/

When installing RPM packages on a non-redhat system
you may need to use the --nodeps and --force options
however it is usualy safer to use the rpm2targz program
from the slackware bin.tgz package available at
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-7.0/slakware/a1/
to convert the RPM package to standard .tgz or .tar.gz format

installing RPM packages on a Linux disribution that was not 
built for them and was not installed by the RPM program
is one of the fastest ways to ruin a perfectly good system
(been there)
and get some extra practice on re-installing Linux
(done that)

Brian
( not a RH user )

Fred wrote,

> Probing is in the latest EMC release. Will built an RPM out of this,
> that includes the binaries. It's on the NIST FTP site:
> 
> ftp://ftp.isd.mel.nist.gov/pub/emc/emc-0.9-05.i386.rpm
> 
> It's about 3.1 MB.
> 
> To install this, do the usual:
> 
> rpm -i emc-0.9-05.i386.rpm
> 
> According to Will:
> 
> "The default directory /usr/local/nist for rpm to install files to can
> be changed on the rpm command line with --prefix=otherdir
> 
> In addition to untarring the files the current install scripts and
> attrib settings in the .rpm 
> 
> 1. Add a symbolic link in /usr/lib/librcs.so to the librcs.so that was
> installed.
> 
> 2. Sets the setuid flag on the executables in the bin directory so they
> can be run by non-root users."