[ic] newbie problem

[Steve & Patti Getzinger]

Well let's start with the obvious :) I would rpm -e the $%#@ thing and
let it do it's own thing with rpm -ivh blah.rpm. Now we should have an
install in /usr/lib/interchange and upon running makecat you should
(assuming you just accept defaults) make you a catalog in
/var/lib/interchange/catalogs. It will be named construct. You should be
able to access that catalog via a browser with:
http://your.domain.com/cgi-bin/consruct Now you have a working (should
have) catalog. Once you have accomplished that and see how the pieces
are on your machine (all the pieces) you can play as much as you want.
You can place catalogs wherever you want and you can install wherever
you want but first make sure you have an understanding and a working
model to follow.

Steve

martin wrote:
> 
> Hello.
> 
> As I had a spare mandrake workstation, I installed and tested apache,
> checked perl for the correct version, installed inetrchange from the RPM as
> it was available.
> 
> It put it into /usr/lib/
> 
> I have printed out ALL the docs, put them into a binder, read and re-read them.
> 
> Following the   "Interchange installation"  page 6 section 3.2
> 
> cd to interchange directory
> 
> diff -r construct catalogs/construct
> 
> comes back with   catalogs/construct: file/directory not found.
> 
> Why wasn`t it created ?
> 
> The instructions don`t say anything about creating the directory manually.
> 
> I haven`t used   diff  before so am following this part blindly, although
> the man page seems to indicate it compares files directories.  This implies
> that catalogs/construct should already exist but it doesn`t.
> 
> I never liked RPM`s.  Perhap`s I should download the tar.gz and start again.
> 
> Regards...Martin
> 
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