Re: [newbie] rpm src install problem ...

2002-01-31 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thursday 24 January 2002 05:11, you wrote: Ken, I don't know if anyone has responded to this yet, but anyway, here it is. The root environment by default does not have a path to ./ . This is a security thing. Therefore in order to tell rpm where it is you need to do this: rpm

Re: [newbie] rpm src install problem ...

2002-01-31 Thread Robin Turner
On Thursday 31 January 2002 11:38, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Thursday 24 January 2002 05:11, you wrote: Ken, I don't know if anyone has responded to this yet, but anyway, here it is. The root environment by default does not have a path to ./ . This is a security thing. Therefore in

Re: [newbie] rpm src install problem ...

2002-01-31 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thursday 31 January 2002 06:44, you wrote: What result is that, exactly? Is the src starting but not completing the rebuilding process or is rpm not finding it? If the latter then give rpm the exact full path to your src rpm. i.e. : rpm --rebuild

Re: [newbie] rpm src install problem ...

2002-01-31 Thread Robin Turner
On Thursday 31 January 2002 17:49, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Thursday 31 January 2002 06:44, you wrote: What result is that, exactly? Is the src starting but not completing the rebuilding process or is rpm not finding it? If the latter then give rpm the exact full path to your src rpm. i.e.

[newbie] rpm src install problem ...

2002-01-24 Thread Kenn Murrah
Greetings ... I'm attempting to install gdk-pixbuf ... i could only find a src.rpm at rpmfind, not an i586 version ... so i was attempting to build it ... i'm getting a file not found message, even though, as you can see the file is there ... what am i doing wrong? thanks, kenn Script

Re: [newbie] rpm src install problem ...

2002-01-24 Thread Scott
Call me crazy, but I see two different file names. Are you using tab for auto-completion on the file names? On 24 Jan 2002, Kenn Murrah wrote: Greetings ... I'm attempting to install gdk-pixbuf ... i could only find a src.rpm at rpmfind, not an i586 version ... so i was attempting to