RE[2]: New to linux

[Rusty Carruth]

Graham Fry <GrahamF@RUBICO.COM> wrote:
> 
> 
> >  -----Original Message-----
> > From: 	Graham Fry  
> > Sent:	12 February 2002 04:15
> > To:	'gnucash-user@lists.gnumatic.com'
> > Subject:	New to linux
> > 
> > I am installing SuSE 7.2 I have gone to the down load site and found two
> > posible down loads I am down loading both
> > gnucash-1.6.1-1.i386.rpm 483kb on the sit it is alot bigger
> > gnucash-1.6.1-1.src.rpm  483kb on the sit it is alot bigger
> > 
> > why are they so much smaller than what the sit indicates and now what do I
> > do

The i386.rpm file is a binary, pre-compiled version.  This is the best
way to go if you can make it install.

The other one is the source only, and you have to build the binary
rpm from the source and then install it.  (I'm still working on
the correct sequence for that little trick, so I'll not try to
tell you the wrong way to do it...)

The binary one is so much bigger because it has a lot of the libraries
you need already compiled in.  The source one needs those libraries,
possibly downloaded if you don't have them already.  

SO, go for the *i386.rpm, and do a rpm -i gnucash-1.6.1-1.i386.rpm
once its downloaded (of SuSE does not do it for you automatically).

rc


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