On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 17:46:24 +0200 Sandaruwan Wijenayake disseminated the following:
> Just for an explanation... I come up with this problem when I needed to > install a package that I got as a source rpm. I tried to build it in my home > PC and find out that I need to install "rpm-build" package which is not > included in installation CDs. So today I downloaded it from my office > network. But now I'm not sure if I have all dependent packages needed to > install this new package. I need to do this in weekend and if there are > something missing, I may not be able to download till Monday since I do not > have internet access. I'm surprised that the rpm-build package is not on the CD's... :-\ Building a source RPM is going to require, most likely, a lot more than the rpm-build package. You are going to need the appropriate devel libs, which also may or may not be on the CD's. Check out the rpm/urpmi section on the Mandrake Twiki: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/UsingUrpmi In this case, what you want to do is rpm -R <packagename>, it will give you all the dependencies. 'man rpm' is your friend ;-) Just out of curiosity, what is the RPM you are trying to build? It's quite possible that it is available as a binary RPM, which would save you a lot of headaches, considering your situation. -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 19:16:00 up 79 days, 19:05, 8 users, load average: 0.14, 0.05, 0.04 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "...[the Iraq war] was not in conformity with the UN charter. From our point of view and from the charter point of view it was illegal." -- Kofi Annan, Sept 15th 2004
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