Installing from source

[EniSol]

After moving off a Redhat box, I wanted to do away with installing through RPM... Seems to be the easy way.

I haven't really installed by source, anyone care to give some tips on doing it right, and not screwing my system?

Thanks a bunch

oh, btw, After moving from RedHat, I think I've fallen in love with Slack... :P

Adrian/Eni$sol

[Unruly]

well, usually within the tar.gz file you'll find a INSTALL file which if you open it up in a text editor, you'll be given instructions on the specific procedure.

but, usually, it goes a lot like this.

(within the source extracted directory)
./configure
make
{computer grinds}
su
password: <rootpassword>
make install