Re: [cobalt-users] Installing Software

["Andy Jacobs" <andy.jacobs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: Dom Latter <DLatter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 2:58 PM
Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] Installing Software


>
> > thick Linux book here and I'm not afraid to use it :o)  This is a live
> > system and I just don't want tons of files appearing where I
> > don't want them.
>
> It's best to get yourself an old PC and stick Red Hat on it and
> make your mistakes on that first.  Failing that, what *I* would do
> is put a *copy* of your tar file in, say, /home/temp/playpen and
> see how permissions and directories are set up when you untar
> the file, and that way get a feel for how it works.

That's the conclusion I have come to.  I have to do a load of chowning and
chmoding so I'm not too concerned about the way that they start life after
being untarred.

I'm just mindful of the fact that there are several tens of files making up
the tar file and that one slip of the keyboard could see them all sitting in
/.

Cheers,

Andy