Ok. Might anyone have any suggestions? Maybe docs.fedoraptject.org. That's all I can think of right off the bat. My email client seems to be giving me some trouble tonight.
On Sun, Dec 11, 2022, 6:53 PM Tom Horsley <horsley1...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 11 Dec 2022 18:29:26 -0500 > Bill Cunningham wrote: > > > cdrkit-1.11-50.fc37.src.rpm. which is what everyone else has. How can I > > get this installed from a local directory, even though it's a source > > rpm. Others have had this question, but IDK how they resolved it. > > For source rpms you need to setup a ~/.rpmmacros file to tell it > where to put the unpacked source, then a command like > > rpm -ihv whatever.src.rpm > > will install a bunch of tar files in the install directory, then > you'll need to go to the SPECS directory where the source > was installed do something like > > rpmbuild -bp cdrkit.spec > > which will unpack all the source and apply all the patches so you > can actually examine the source files. (Lots of other options on > rpmbuild). > > Dealing with source rpms the first time is always a confusing > experience, but you can probably find better documentation > than this short message. > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue >
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