On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 14:39, John the Kiwi wrote:
> Please excuse my newbie questions and please don't accuse me of not
> RTFMing, I've so far spent four hours trying to install netcat.

I don't believe you. Read this: http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/

> Here's what I did, I looked on disk 4 of my RedHat 8.0 CDs and saw
> nc-1.10-16.src.rpm. That's exactly what I want. I double click the file
> and enter the root password the a gui comes up and disappears. So now I
> know the source for netcat is somewhere on my system. Think I can find
> it? No way.

open a terminal

su -
cd /path/to/the/src.rpm/file
rpm --rebuild nc-1.10-16.src.rpm
rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/nc-1.10-16.i386.rpm

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Saul Arias - [EMAIL PROTECTED]



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