Dear People, I recently tried to install a source rpm (as root) on a Debian system. I got
laplace:/home/faheem# rpm -Uvh plugger-4.0-17.src.rpm error: cannot create %sourcedir /usr/src/rpm/SOURCES But this works on my home computer Chrestomanci:/home/faheem# rpm -Uvh plugger-4.0-6.src.rpm 1:plugger ########################################### [100%] Ok, so they are not exactly the same version, but very similar. Can anyone explain what is going on? I'll been pulling my hair for a while trying to figure out why root cannot create /usr/src/rpm/SOURCES etc. Both laplace and my home computer Chrestomanci are supposedly tracking sarge, and have the exact same version of rpm. I see that I have the entire /usr/src/rpm directory hierachy installed on my system, and I am perfectly sure I did not create it myself. However, the rpm Debian package installation script does not seem to install it either, so it is a mystery how it got there. Did rpm simply create it as it needed it? In case anyone is wondering, I am trying to install the src rpm in order to compile it, an operation I had earlier successfully done on my home computer. Faheem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]