-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 1 Mar 2003 11:15:33 -0000, Greg Stewart wrote:
> I've installed RH psyche in order to learn how to program on linux, and I've > been trying to install source code, particularly that for vim. > > Running: > > rpm -i -v vim-6.1-14.src.rpm (as root from the package dir) prints out > > vim-6.1-14 > > but rpm -q -v vim-6.1-14 indicates the package isn't installed. Correct. Source rpms get extracted, not installed. > All > that happens is that about 100 patch and tar.gz files etc are created in > /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/. Correct. That's expected behaviour, though you shouldn't extract source rpms as root. You write you want the source code for vim. It's in the tar.gz archive. > It's as if some script was supposed to be run to amalgamate them and > doesn't. Trying to install using redhat-config-packages doesn't do much > better, except that an rpm -q will indicate the package installed - the > files in /SOURCES/ remain the same unusable bunch... Installing a src.rpm will never make "rpm -q" report that the file is installed. - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+YJ5F0iMVcrivHFQRAnzyAJ9RzUETAAYZ44qQr4KfCENBO1iTIACfRm1w MbUx7IeKrr494KtD6PgOmx0= =PLR0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
