On Sunday 22 August 2004 16:15, Jim Sabatke wrote:
Richard wrote:
On Saturday 21 August 2004 10:40 am, Jim Sabatke wrote:
One more example. I just installed apt-get, which I'm really impressed with. I wanted to see if an interface program wouldn't be nice, so I got the source for synaptic (no rpms for 9.0 that I could find).
You did not look hard enough: ;) http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/9.0-i386/SRPMS.suser-rbos/synapti...
I then went on an journey of missing xml and other libs that finally caused me to give up, for a while at least.
Install the rpm with 'rpm -ihv synaptic-0.53-rb1.src.rpm' execute 'grep "^BuildRequires:" /usr/src/packages/SPECS/synaptic.spec' Every package named after "BuildRequires:" is needed for the build and should be installed (with apt). Once installed, the .src.rpm can be rebuilt with: rpmbuild --rebuild synaptic-0.53-rb1.src.rpm ;) Cheers, Leen