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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
(although sometimes I build from source and then make install - that wouldn’t help me there, would it?)

No. There is a program you might want to look at though, called "checkinstall". You do your make then checkinstall instead of make install, and it creates an RPM for you.  I really liked it, but these days, just about everything I need is in the repos, and I don't really have to muck about with compiling programs anymore.

9 posted on 10/22/2009 12:15:43 PM PDT by zeugma (The pluiral of anecdote is not data.)
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Gotcha - the other thing I always wonder about is Linux support for multimedia. Has that gotten any better?

I’ve had to kept mplayer sources, build that, (takes a long time) and then get various windoze codecs binaries that just work in the linux environment. All very labor intensive. I so far have yet to have a distro that just “did” multimedia right out of the box, due I’m sure, to licensing issues.

Do we ever get out of this box?


10 posted on 10/22/2009 12:25:28 PM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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