On Thursday 24 March 2005 10:12 am, Derek Jennings wrote:

> This is a src.rpm  installing it simply puts the source tarball in
> ~/rpm/SOURCES and the .spec file in ~/rpm/SPECS where they can be compiled
> with an rpmbuild command (also as  user).
>
> Once compiled a binary rpm package appears in ~/rpm/RPMS/i586 which then
> has to be installed as root.
>
> derek

Ah, that explains it. Thanks! :-)

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