From: Tzafrir Cohen (tzafrir_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Thu 24 Jun 2004 - 00:15:15 IDT
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 10:04:41PM +0300, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote:
>
> I think the easiest would be to download their binary tar.gz (what
> they call 'Linux downloads', the first option in their download page).
> I know our DBA installed it more-or-less smoothly on RH73.
> Not always RPMs are less work. Unless it's a trivial package, I tend
> to install RPMs only from the distributor. Packages that have such
> binary, location independent tar.gz's (such as tomcat, java, mozilla,
> etc.) are very often easier to install than RPMs. If the problems are
> real, e.g. if their binary tar.gz does need a shared lib you don't
> have (or a newer one), you _will_ get into trouble, though.
You may also get into troubles if the package provides a library you
need to link against.
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