Re: [CentOS] (a) WinPower RPM available? (b) where to install if use tar.gz file? [Solved]
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists@gmail.com wrote:
Two quick and simple questions; I want to install the "WinPower" software for my new UPS. On their web site, they have a tar.gz file available for download. I know the reasons for staying with RPM, if at all possible. I've Googled and Yahood for ""WinPower"+RPM+Linux and get hits, but no obvious RPM. I tried "yum install winpower" and the response was "no package winpower available" (rpmforge is one of the yum repositories I use, so it's not there, with that name).
I read the documentation, again, very slowly..... Their default configuration is not set up to Shutdown the box the UPS is connected to. Once I changed the configuration, the test went perfectly. :-)
This wasn't the SW for me to try to "roll my own" RPM with, since the Source code wasn't available to me, etc. Thanks to everyone who replied, I have a lot more understanding about how the SW for your UPS is configured (and why) and a little understanding of what packaging SW involves. Much appreciated!
This wasn't the SW for me to try to "roll my own" RPM with, since the Source code wasn't available to me, etc.
You don't need source to make an rpm. You can simply use an rpm as an organized way to distribute and keep track of files that are installed.
jlc
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Joseph L. Casale JCasale@activenetwerx.com wrote:
This wasn't the SW for me to try to "roll my own" RPM with, since the Source code wasn't available to me, etc.
You don't need source to make an rpm. You can simply use an rpm as an organized way to distribute and keep track of files that are installed.
Since installing stuff that isn't an RPM is strongly discouraged, with CentOS, Upstream, etc., for various very valid reasons, it would have been a good learning experience for me. Not sure if I had the Binary. There was a file setup.bin Lots of JRE stuff in the tarball.
The Winpower SW and Documentation were probably written in Taiwan by someone whose native language isn't English. Much better than something I write in Spanish.
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Lanny Marcus