On Tuesday 18 February 2003 12:05 pm, Randy Kramer wrote: > On Tuesday 18 February 2003 09:58 am, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > > Hello, > > It seems that the rpm provided in abisource.com is only for Redhat > > 8.0. I compiled from source abiword for Redhat 7.3. Is there an easy > > way to make and rpm distribution for this? > > The following is the quote of a response Dom Lachowicz sent to someone > else on the same subject a few weeks ago (hmm, maybe I should add this > to the FAQ -- let me know if these instructions are sufficient of if > something else should be added): > > <quote> > Actually, all you need to know how to use is rpm if > you want to be technical. There's no special version > of the sources needed to run on Mandrake. Just grab > the spec file out of the RedHat RPMs, a recent AbiWord > tarball, and then: > > rpmbuild -bb <tarball> > or > rpm -bb <tarball>
Uh.. that command gave me: $ rpm -bb abiword-1.0.4.tar error: File /usr/src/abiword-1.0.4.tar does not appear to be a specfile. ?? thx. RDB ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
