Octaviz, VTK, & Octave CMAKE???

[Jarod Wilson]

On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 11:08 -0400, Labitt, Bruce wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jarod Wilson [mailto:jarod at wilsonet.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 10:41 AM
> To: Labitt, Bruce
> Cc: Greater NH Linux User Group
> Subject: RE: Octaviz, VTK, & Octave CMAKE???
> 
> On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 10:00 -0400, Labitt, Bruce wrote:
> > Is there an advantage to installing via yum vs rpm -ivh?
> 
> They operate at different levels... If you try to rpm -ivh something,
> and its deps aren't met, it'll simply tell you that and not install. If
> you use yum, it'll try to find the packages that satisfy the deps and
> install them along with the package. Its all rpm underneath, but yum
> handles the "rpm dependency hell" for you. (very similar to how debian
> uses the dpkg format, but apt to install and auto-solve dependencies)
> 
> 
> [Labitt, Bruce] So say I have a directory of vtk related rpms that I
> just generated from this spec file.  Would this work for installation?
> 
> [root @myhost /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/x86_64]# yum localinstall vtk*
> 
> This should install all the vtk related rpms that I just generated?

Yeah, that sounds about right. Just note that this is also probably
going to pick up the -debuginfo packages, which you may or may not want
installed.



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Jarod Wilson
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