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
>
rpm --rebuild <filename>.src.rpm
this will compile <filename>.i586.rpm in
/usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i586 and then you need to install those
binary files.
man rpm is pretty useful.
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