[H-GEN] What have I installed?

Bradley Marshall bradm at uqconnect.net
Mon Feb 10 21:58:14 EST 2003


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Hi Ewan,

On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Ewan Edwards wrote:
> Yesterday, I downloaded the tarball for a recent version of a fairly commonly
> used piece of software (dhcp-3.0.1rc11.tar.gz) to a RH7.3 box.  After having
> a look at the README file and running the obligatory "./configure", "make",
> and "make install" commands (without error I might add), I now want to know
> what files I have actually 'installed' on this box.  Can someone please tell
> me where I should look for some kind of list of what files (including man
> pages) have been generated and installed?

One thing I always do before installing software like this is
to run a make -n install, this will show you what commands it
would run, without actually running them.  Give it a go, and
it should show you what was installed.

Thanks,
Brad
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