On Thursday 24 March 2005 12:51, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Thursday 24 March 2005 07:38 am, Derek Jennings wrote: > > First you should be installing as a user not root. > > Derek, I'm confused about this - no normal user on any of my systems has > the right to install or delete (system) software - this is a root > privilege, (rpm group?), from my understanding. Of course they can install > and delete in their own /home directory. Did I miss something? Thanks.
This is a src.rpm installing it simply puts the source tarball in ~/rpm/SOURCES and the .spec file in ~/rpm/SPECS where they can be compiled with an rpmbuild command (also as user). Once compiled a binary rpm package appears in ~/rpm/RPMS/i586 which then has to be installed as root. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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