From: Michael Rash Date: Sun, 27 May 2012 17:37:20 +0000 (-0400) Subject: added note about trying yum/agt-get installation (Guillermo Gomez) X-Git-Tag: fwsnort-1.6.3-pre1~6 X-Git-Url: http://www.cipherdyne.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=fwsnort.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=b404d75afbc7351e38249f7f07736154ebb5e47b added note about trying yum/agt-get installation (Guillermo Gomez) --- diff --git a/README.RPM b/README.RPM index a40042c..9c6e2cf 100644 --- a/README.RPM +++ b/README.RPM @@ -1,4 +1,10 @@ +NOTE: Before building an RPM manually for your Linux system, it is recommended +to try installing fwsnort via the standard software install mechanism for your +distribution since fwsnort is available in many distribution software +repositories. For example, you can try installing fwsnort with 'yum' or +'apt-get' depending on the type of Linux distribution that you are running. + Building RPM files that are compatible with all possible Linux distributions is a difficult task. If a given RPM file that is downloaded from http://www.cipherdyne.org/ is not compatible with your particular Linux