Re: CVS installation

[Mark D. Baushke]

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Vijayram Gopu <vijayram_cvs@yahoo.com> writes:

> Hello,
>  
>  I am trying to install cvs on my linux server. I downloaded the latest
> rpm for linux from cvshome.org and executed this command from the
> directory to where it is downloaded to,
>  
>  rpm -Uvh cvs.1.11.5.cvshom......src.rpm
>  
> it shows that it is doing it but when I executed the cvs command to
> initialize the repository, console says the cvs command not found.
>  
> Could anyone suggest any ideas on this.

You have installed the sources, not the binaries for cvs.

Depending on what version of rpm you are using, you need to rebuild
using the appropriate command.

You may wish to read the following thread:

  http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2003-07/msg00101.html
  http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2003-07/msg00102.html
  http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2003-07/msg00106.html
  http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2003-07/msg00110.html
  http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2003-07/msg00117.html
  http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2003-07/msg00119.html

You might as well use Geoff's proceedure for a non-root user using
the rpmbuild command.

        Good luck,
        -- Mark
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