Re: [LI] help installing source rpm

[<venu@xxxxxxxx>]

The very point of the source rpm is that only the source gets installed,
not the binary. If  you want to use the package, you will have to install
it, first compiling the bianry from the source. This compilation procedure
varies from package to package, but the usual technique is to use the GNU
autoconf tool to generate a script called configure in the top level
directory of the source package. This script then generates the various
Makefiles in the required subdirectories. Usually, all you have to do is
to then type 'make' in the top-level directory to generate the required
binaries.
	
							yours,
							venu

On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, nag wrote:

> hai all,
> I have the following configuration :
> redhat 6.0 and i686 machine.
> 
> I downloaded wget-1.5.3-5.src.rpm  and tried to install it with
> the following command
> rpm  -i wget-1.5.3-5.src.rpm
> It has written the sources in /usr/src/redhat/SORCES and
> /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
> but it is not installed./
> Then i tried  to build  with the following commands
> rpm -bp wget.spec (%prep)
> this is o.k
> when I say wget-bc wget.spec it is not building
> and it is giving the following error in the end.
> + libtoolize --copy --force
> /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.88920:libtoolize:command not found
> Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.88920 (%build)
> 
> Please help me out in installing thi source rpm.
> Thanks in advance.
> nag
> 
> 
> 
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