I just installed the opendx RPMs from opendx.org on my  RedHat 6.1
machine.  Thanks for making RPMs available!  However I did come
across some problems I wanted to let you know about.

1. There still seems to be an interactor problem.  Dials and steppers
don't work.

2. There is also a small bug.  The rpm installs into /usr, but the
script /usr/bin/dx and script in /usr/dx/bin still specify the prefix
/usr/local.

3. Finally, I wanted to mention that your naming conventions are not
usual for RPMs and cause some problems.  You associated the following
names to the RPMs (in the spec file, I imagine):

  OpenDX
  opendx-4.0.10-redhat-6.x-linux-docs
  
The second name is surely not right.  The version number 4.0.10 is
separate from the name.  If I ask my system to list my installed
rpms (rpm -qa), it now gives the redundant info
"opendx-4.0.10-redhat-6.x-linux-docs-4.0.10-1".

I would suggest names

  opendx
  opendx-docs

for the two RPMs.  Of course the version number would be 4.0.10 and the
release number 1 (or 2).  Then, conventionally, the name of the rpm
files would be name-version-release.i386.rpm, i.e.,

  opendx-4.0.10-1.i386.rpm
  opendx-docs-4.0.10-1.i386.rpm

These names, especially the one associated to the RPM in the spec
file, are important, since to query the rpm the user must supply the
name.  E.g., if I want to find out what opendx docs there are I would
type, under my suggested scheme,

  rpm -ql opendx-docs

It would be tough for me to remember your long name and type

  rpm -ql opendx-4.0.10-redhat-6.x-linux-docs
  
By the way it is possible to put OS information in the release number,
like 1rh6.1, if you insist, but it is not usually done.

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