On Monday 24 June 2002 09:43 am, Myles Green enshrined in prose: > On June 23, 2002 04:28 pm, Keith Antoine wrote: > > when using this command to make from a tar file what is the correct > > syntax ? I used it as rpm -ra xine-lib-0.9.12.tar.gz and it told me > > that the arguments were wrong. > > That's because 'rpm -ra' is incorrect, it's 'rpm -ta' if you want to > build from a tarball. > > HTH,
Of course it is, this is one of my lesser days. Started early and rushed through a download, use -ra instead of -ta, did not see my stupidity. End result "egg on face", this evening. Oh well! have done worse previously, but thanks, it did not sink intill I saw that reply. -- Keith Antoine (GANDALF) aka 'skippy' 18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061 Australia PH:61733002161 Retired Geriatric, Sometime Electronics Engineer, Knowall, Brain in storage _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
