rpm is a package manager and you have to build the binares
befaore installing. Go to wherever you have the SRPM and type:
rpm --rebuild <package.src.rpm>
When the process is done -- if therea re no errors -- go to
/usr/src/RPM/SRPMS/ and install the binary.
On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
-Is there a trick to installing source RPMs? I
-downloaded samba-2.0.5a-3mdk.src.rpm from one of the
-mandrake mirrors, and installed it using 'rpm -ivh' (like all the binaries
-I do successfully). When I then
-query for the file list, I get told it isn't installed?
-
-[root@sphinx local]# rpm -ivh samba-2.0.5a-3mdk.src.rpm
-samba ##################################################
-[root@sphinx local]# rpm -ql samba-2.0.5a-3mdk.src.rpm
-package samba-2.0.5a-3mdk.src.rpm is not installed
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