.src.rpm

reggie_da_man · 03-29-2005, 04:21 PM

hi everyone, im trying to install limewire (again)

and when i download the package for the libXss.so.1 it gives me this
"xorg-x11-6.8.1-4.src.rpm" how do you install this type of file??

C.Ingram · 03-29-2005, 04:53 PM

What distro are you using? a .src.rpm is a source RPM. Its used to configure and build from source instead of just copying pre-compiled files.

reggie_da_man · 03-29-2005, 05:23 PM

sorry im a newbie ... whats a distro?

horndude · 03-29-2005, 05:36 PM

a distro is whatever flavor of linux your using, like redhat or slackware or whatever

open a terminal and type "man rpm" without the quotes, that will give you a listing of what the rpm command is all about, its a way of packaging software, usually precompiled software

you need to extract it into a directory, then go into that directory and follow the directions in the README or INSTALL file inside there, it should have those

reggie_da_man · 03-29-2005, 05:38 PM

im using redhat 9, when i type"man rpm" i get "No manual entry for rmp" and how do i extract this type of file?

C.Ingram · 03-29-2005, 06:02 PM

Did you misstype?

Quote:

"No manual entry for rmp"

The RPM command has to be there somewhere.

http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/s1-rpm-mi...nia-srpms.html

horndude · 03-29-2005, 06:04 PM

it better have an entry for rpm for christ's sake jeeez, if it doesnt that redhat is even more worthless than I thought

I use slackware which doesnt even use rpm and I have a man page for rpm

go here and look it up
http://www.tldp.org

No offense, but Im real hesitant to even get involved in this, everytime I help a complete newbie around here it doesnt seem to help much, I dont know what you know, I dont know what redhat does or doesnt come with, I stay away from redhat anything

try rpm -i <filename> and see what happens, you need to be logged in as root, Im not sure if that will work right or not

what you need should be on the install disk and already installed

m not showing an extract only option for the rpm command, but I didnt look thru all 10 pages of it either

reggie_da_man · 03-29-2005, 06:08 PM

ok it gives a whole long list of stuff that i cant do anything with and when i try typing rpm -ivv it gives me this"error: cannot create %sourcedir /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES" what do i do now???

horndude · 03-29-2005, 06:14 PM

are you logged in as root?

reggie_da_man · 03-29-2005, 06:19 PM

yup...thats what i dont understand

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