On 1 Sep 2006, at 15:20, PhilipQuinlan wrote:
>> [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.
Correct. You should have quit while you were ahead.
> it installs the source code in /usr/local/src/<pkgname>
No it doesn't.
> You can either compile and install this source
>> cd /usr/local/src/<pckgname>/
> ./configure&&make&&make install
No you can't - not unless you've put the source there yourself. Using
rpm to install a source file doesn't go near /usr/local (by default -
I bet you could configure it to, if you were perverse enough)
Niall
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