Re: Help: cnews under Linux

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From: Borg
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 00:00

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John Henders wrote:

> As Toomas said, it's better to build packages like INN yourself, but, if
> you're really new at this and just want it to work, the chances are much
> higher a package from Redhat or Debian will work correctly when
> installed. I recall people used to have to run strings on the Slackware
> uucp binaries to actually figure out where the configuration files
> should be installed, as Slackware's install put the config files in the
> wrong directory.

RedHat provides you with both binary and source packages.
The latter installs all the config files where needed
(or they are installed later after 'make' in another script) 
and source in /usr/src.

Regards,
Vlad

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