[ILUG] rpm V's src.rpm

[PhilipQuinlan]

Hi Justine,

O'Flanagan Justine wrote:

> Eg:
> [root at rhubarb tmp]# rpm -q --qf '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}  (%{ARCH})\n'
> pdksh 
> pdksh-5.2.14-13 (i386)
> [root at rhubarb tmp]# rpm -ev pdksh
> [root at rhubarb tmp]# rpm -q --qf '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}  (%{ARCH})\n'
> pdksh 
> package pdksh is not installed
> [root at rhubarb tmp]# ls -alrt pdksh*.rpm
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root       494256 Aug 31 10:47
> pdksh-5.2.14-30.3.src.rpm
> [root at rhubarb tmp]# rpm -ivh pdksh-5.2.14-30.3.src.rpm
>   
I don't know if this is the case for all the packages you got, but what 
you have here is a source rpm.  it installs the source code in 
/usr/local/src/<pkgname>
You can either compile and install this source

cd /usr/local/src/<pckgname>/
./configure&&make&&make install

OR if you want to keep your rpm database up to date you can search for a 
binary rpm, one without src in the title.
binary packages are per distribution, but Redhat AS should be no problem 
to find.

>    1:pdksh                  ###########################################
> [100%]
> [root at rhubarb tmp]# rpm -q --qf '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}  (%{ARCH})\n'
> pdksh 
> package pdksh is not installed
>   
No but the source code is.


Hope that helps, Philip