RPM and tarballs

[Oliver Ruebenacker]

     Dear friends,

  If you install software directly from a tarball, rpm will not be
aware of the installation. How can rpm be made aware of it?

  Is rpm --rebuilddb supposed to always fix the problem? What if it does not?

  Or should I always try to turn the tarball into an rpm file? How to do this?

  Thank you!

     Take care
     Oliver

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Oliver Ruebenacker, Post-Doc Researcher
Theoretical Biological Physics and Soft Statistical Mechanics
Cell Biology at UConn Health Center and Physics at Harvard
http://people.deas.harvard.edu/~oliver/