[ale] Install RPM file and specify install directory

[Trey Sizemore]

On Mon, 16 May 2005 10:14:41 -0400 (EDT), "Chris Ricker"
<kaboom at oobleck.net> said:
> On Sun, 15 May 2005, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> 
> > You will need the src rpm (SRPM) and you will need to use rpmbuild to
> > rebuild the package.  I think, but am not sure, that you will need to
> > also modify the .spec file to alter the target directory.  First check
> > the man page of rpmbuild, there might be a way to override it these
> > days.
> 
> you shouldn't need to rebuild just to get it into /usr/local instead of 
> /usr
> 
> rpm --relocate /usr=/usr/local
> 
> or
> 
> rpm --prefix /usr/local
> 
> work if the rpm was built even semi-sanely
> 
> > On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 20:06 -0400, Trey Sizemore wrote:
> > > I need to install gpgme03 and have gpgme10 installed already.  Some
> > > programs need one and some the other.  How can I install the gpgme03 RPM
> > > and specify its install to a directory like /usr/local so that it
> > > doesn't conflict with packages from the newer gpgme?
> 
> See above.
> 
> It likely won't really help you though, because you'll still have to deal 
> with dependency resolution and such (simply putting files in a different 
> location is a solution for a different problem)
> 
> What you want is to find packages of gpgme 1.0 and gpgme 0.3 which were 
> designed to co-exist. Fedora has them already in the Extras -- don't know 
> about other RPM-based distros
> 

Yes, this is for SUSE, so I'll check to see if these exist.  Thanks for
the info.

-Trey
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  Trey Sizemore
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