<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Generate And Install Packages of LCDproc</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="LCDproc User's Guide" HREF="book1.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Installation" HREF="c185.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Install LCDproc Directly From The Sources " HREF="x211.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="LCDproc Configuration" HREF="c254.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >LCDproc User's Guide: The Ultimate Guide to LCDproc 0.4.3</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x211.html" ACCESSKEY="P" ><<< Previous</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Installation</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="c254.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next >>></A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="PACKAGE-INSTALL" ></A >Generate And Install Packages of LCDproc</H1 ><P >As an alternative (which is actually better ;) to installing directly from the sources you can generate packages using the packaging tool EPM.</P ><P >First of all you may need to download EPM from <A HREF="http://www.easysw.com/epm/" TARGET="_top" >http://www.easysw.com/epm/</A > and install it according to the instructions that are included in its source distribution.</P ><P >Debian users (who do not want to download the official debs via apt-get) can of course use the debian package of epm:</P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="SCREEN" ><TT CLASS="PROMPT" >#</TT > <TT CLASS="USERINPUT" ><B >apt-get install epm</B ></TT ></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><DIV CLASS="NOTE" ><P ></P ><TABLE CLASS="NOTE" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="25" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="TOP" ><IMG SRC="./stylesheet-images/note.gif" HSPACE="5" ALT="Note"></TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" ><P >There are of course other and maybe better ways to generate packages for your system. The reason for us to choose EPM was that it provide the developers with a tool that makes it possible to write one list file for all platforms defining what the resulting package is meant to look like. This way we do not have to learn all the package managing tools of the different platforms that are supported by LCDproc.</P ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><P >To generate an LCDproc package follow these instructions:</P ><DIV CLASS="TIP" ><P ></P ><TABLE CLASS="TIP" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="25" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="TOP" ><IMG SRC="./stylesheet-images/tip.gif" HSPACE="5" ALT="Tip"></TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" ><P >It is of certain importance that you have run ./configure with the correct pathname settings for your system. Otherwise the resulting package will install the files in the wrong directories.</P ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="SCREEN" ><TT CLASS="PROMPT" >$</TT > <TT CLASS="USERINPUT" ><B >epm -v -f native LCDproc</B ></TT ></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><DIV CLASS="NOTE" ><P ></P ><TABLE CLASS="NOTE" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="25" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="TOP" ><IMG SRC="./stylesheet-images/note.gif" HSPACE="5" ALT="Note"></TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" ><P >Generating an RPM package as a non-root user will fail, RPM wants to generate the files from the tree under <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >/usr/src/RPM</TT >, which you do not have write access to as a non-root user. If you want to generate the package as a non-root user anyway, you may want to follow these instructions.</P ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><P >A workaround for the described problem is creating a file named <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >~/.rpmmacros</TT > which contains:</P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="SCREEN" >%_topdir ~/rpm</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><DIV CLASS="IMPORTANT" ><P ></P ><TABLE CLASS="IMPORTANT" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="25" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="TOP" ><IMG SRC="./stylesheet-images/important.gif" HSPACE="5" ALT="Important"></TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" ><P ><TT CLASS="FILENAME" >~/rpm</TT > must contain the same tree usually found under <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >/usr/src/RPM</TT ></P ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><P >Unfortunately epm does not read <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >~/.rpmmacros</TT > and of course returns warnings. Don't worry! 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