On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > From: m.roth at 5-cent.us > Subject: [CentOS] Was: Re: looking for cool, post-install things, > is custom software > > Les Mikesell wrote: >> On 9/17/2010 3:30 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >>> >>>> All I'm saying is that it often turns out to be a whole lot more work >>>> than the initial 'configure, make, make install', so you either have to >>>> train the users to do their own copies in their own space so it will > <snip> >> If you have different users needing these things on the same machine you >> must at least have run into situations where someone needs one version >> of a CPAN module or a new php/python/mysql version when at the same time >> someone else is running something that won't work with it. >> >> You might have run into the CPAN issue if you installed something like >> RT in the Centos 4 era. > > Actually, my manager just laid something on me this morning: the new > release of Adobe's 64-bit flash for Linux. I suppose I need to get it from > Adobe, then find who's running 64 bit and not 32 bit.... Can you find that out via TCP/IP, or not ? Keith