On Monday 06 April 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> Correct way: realize you are trying to do something no package manager is
> built to do. So, you do it manually. Convert the rpm to a tarball, extract
> it and do all install steps manually. It's a good idea to install the
> binaries to /usr/local/ or /opt/ - the correct place to put binaries
> unknown to a package manger (portage won't nuke them there)

Thank you all for your advice.
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Regards,
Mick