Richard Potter wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
>
> > I'd like to extract a spec file from a existing SRC.RPM I have here ...
> > didn't manage it until now ... that's what I did:
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------
> > $ rpm -q --specfile wget-1.5.3-6.src.rpm
> > line 1: Unknown tag: í«îÛb
> > query of specfile wget-1.5.3-6.src.rpm failed, can't parse
> > $
> > ----------------------------------------------------------
>
> For quick and dirty, use MC to read the src rpm and copy the spec file out.

gmc will do it too.   Right click on the rpm and select explore. Double click
will try to install it but you never stay logged on as root anyway right?

Bret



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