What error message did you get?
How were you trying to install them?
May be you just tried to "rpm -Uvh" them. It's not going to work with
that. A src.rpm package is the source code of a program. You have to
compile it before using it :
rpm --rebuild any-package.src.rpm
will compile the sources and build a binary package in
/usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i[X]86/ (The [X] in the path depends on
your architecture).
Then you can go to that dir and install the binary package with
rpm -Uvh any-package.rpm
If this doesn't solve your problem, please be more explicit when
describing what is wrong.
HTH
Flupke
On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, mrc wrote:
> Tried to install an .src.rpm and failed.
> Does this mean that on Linux-Mandrake such rpms will not work?
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> mcoady
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