Mike Taggart said: > William, > > Thank you for the link and the info for my question. All of this is > very new to me - and when you mentioned " The same way you install any > other RPM " below - that really made no sense what-so-ever -> never done > it before. But, i did follow the link and did read what it had to say > and I should be able to follow the instructions given.
No problem, just pointing you in the direction of the documentation. > As for compiling the "src.rpm" -> sorry, I'm lost - no idea on what you > are referring to. Sorry about that, I (mistakenly) thought that was covered there, too. Basically you get a src.rpm package (for VNC at http://www.realvnc.com/dist/vnc-3.3.7-1.src.rpm ) and (as root) use the "rpmbuild" command: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rpmbuild --rebuild vnc-3.3.7-1.src.rpm Toward the end you will see a line that says "Wrote: " and then a path. That is the binary RPM that was build. VNC should end up in "/usr/src/redhat/RPM/i386/vnc-3.3.7-1.i386.rpm". As always "man rpmbuild" and "rpmbuild --help" will give you more info. Oh, and depending on your install, you might have to install the rpm-build package and it's dependencies. > I don't mean to sound ignorant, I simply don't understand what you mean > - I'm learning as I go - I've only used RH8 now for 3 days and am > getting around - slow, but am getting around. > > Regards, > > Mike No problem, we have all been there. My philosophy is to give you the resources to answer your own question, that way you learn a lot more. -- William Hooper _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
