On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Taylor, Scott J wrote:
> > I issue the following command
> >
> > rpm -ivh ircii4-4.4.src.rpm
> >
> Um...It looks to me like you rpm'ed on the source (a bunch of C code)
> for the irc client instead of the binaries (already compiled programs).
> Did you get it from the SRPM directory or the RPM directory? Unless you
> are going to hack the code for stuff, I suggest you rpm on the stuff
> from the RPM directory.
> Also, that doesn't look like a full rpm file
> name..did it have an i386 in the middle somewhere? If not, it was for
> a processor that you probably don't have (alpha).
Not true. THe source RPMS should in most cases compile to give you the
.i386.rpm (on an intel), the .alpha.rpm (on an alpha), .noarch.rpm (if it
doesn't matter) etc. The source is not (usually) architecture dependant.
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