Manuel Wolfshant,
Thank you for responding. From your answer:
All packages in Fedora (and EPEL) install the binaries and the man
pages
in the same way. IF a package provides a runable binary it will be in
your $PATH; if it has manpages, they will be below $MANPATH.
I can only assume that the installations failed even though the messages said
"completed". I did not install them as a private user. I executed "yum
install alliance" (and the other tools too) as root.
After installation, every tool file is owned by root and none of the files are executable.
The man files are all gzipped.
Attempts to reinstall result in a message that the tool is already installed.
I will try your suggestion and use rpm -ql and repoquery -l to see if there's some
clue as to how I should proceed but my gut feeling is these commands will leave me still
clueless.
Any ideas on what I did wrong or what steps were omitted from the installation procedure?
Thanks,
Bob P.
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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:32:47 -0500
From: Chris Adams <cmadams(a)hiwaay.net>
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Once upon a time, Michael Stahnke <mastahnke(a)gmail.com> said:
If each shop is doing it themselves, that's a lot of wasted
productivity over the long haul. Ideally, this is done in EPEL which
will handle the default case (which is hopefully good enough for most
shops). After that shops may require adjustments to packages or
produce newer ones in year 3-7 of the RHEL lifecycle. I'd hope that
EPEL can at least be a decent starting point though.
I package up several things myself, mainly because I need it "now". I
have plans to push some of those packages to Fedora and EPEL (or just
EPEL, in the case of local rebuilds of Fedora packages), but I haven't
had enough round tuits to get that done.
I did separate my local RHEL repo into repos based on the source of the
package, like "fedora-add" for things I've rebuilt from Fedora,
"fedora-replace" for a few things where I needed a newer version than
RHEL/EPEL, "hiwaay-add" for my packages, etc. Ideally that will make it
easier for me to work with Fedora and EPEL to get my work into the
repos.
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Chris Adams <cmadams(a)hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:37:11 -0400
From: Robert Peruzzi <peruzzi(a)rperuzzi.com>
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EPEL Helpers,
I'm running RHEL 5.1.19.6 and I want to be able to run CAD tools from FEL. Following
directions on the EPEL web page I downloaded an EPEL package as root, then installed all
the FEL tools individually with, for instance:
# yum install alliance
About ? of the installations succeeded, but I'll ask about the failures another time.
For the "successful" installations:
? What is the next step to add the programs to PATH and the man pages to MANPATH,
and make myself the owner (rather than root) and make the executables executable so I can
learn to run these tools?
? Is there a few commands to do this for me or do I need to write my own script or
execute the steps one at a time for each tool?
? Are there more steps I'm missing beyond editing PATH and MANPATH, then doing
a chown and chmod?
Thank you,
Bob Peruzzi