Hello, I am new to Linux. I am running SUSE 9.0 personal. I want to install some source RPMs. So, I downloaded two of them from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/9.0/suse/src
When I tried (having su'ed to root)
rpmbuild --rebuild ./aide-0.9-189.src.rpm
it returns installing ./aide-0.9-189.src.rpm error: ./aide-0.9-189.src.rpm cannot be installed
not sure about that one.. were there errors about dependencies?
When I tried rpmbuild --rebuild ./ethereal-0.9.114-86.src.rpm
I eventually get
checking for GTK - version >= 1.2.0... no *** The gtk-config script installed by GTK could not be found *** If GTK was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in *** your path, or set the GTK_CONFIG environment variable to the *** full path to gtk-config. checking for glib-config... no checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.0... no *** The glib-config script installed by GLIB could not be found *** If GLIB was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in *** your path, or set the GLIB_CONFIG environment variable to the *** full path to glib-config. configure: error: GLib distribution not found. error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.98608 (%build)
I checked using YAST, and both glib and gtk are installed, but I could locate neither lib-config nor using a find command.
you're missing the -devel packages for glib and gtk. the gtk and glib packages only contain the libraries themselves so binaries can run using them. in order to compile a program that uses them, you'll need the matching -devel packages which include the headers and the -config scripts (as well as extra documentation, usually). i'm kind of surprised that it didn't complain about missing dependencies.
How should one go about installing source RPMs?
I have never installed one before.
out of curiosity, is there a reason you're installing from the source rpm instead of a precompiled one? -- trey