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Old 01-17-2008, 06:11 PM
Ed Stankevich
 
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Default Re: Where to install tar files?

Alan Connor wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 06:45:11 -0500, Ed Stankevich <whoha@med.umich.edu> wrote:
>
>>
>> Where should a file like MIME-Lite-3.01.tar be installed ? /sbin
>>/usr/sbin ????
>>

>
>
> Is that the source for an executable? If so, you should untar it in
> your home directory, or /usr/src and compile it from there as root.
>
> Make will install the compiled binary where it belongs, usually with-
> out any need to edit it.
>
> ./configure
> make
> make-install
>
> are usually the commands your run from the source directory to do the job.
>
> Read the README. That's why they call it that :-)
>
>
> AC
>

OK, wrong question. After doing perl Makefile.PL, make test, and make
install on the MIME-LITE tar output nmap-audit install complains that it
can not find MIME? Should I get the tar.gz package again and try it
again or is there something I'm missing?

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