Hello, I am trying to compile the cricket from source code. I am using this a guide to try and get it going:- http://cricket.sourceforge.net/support/doc/beginner.html I need to put the following commands into the spec file 1. Setup cricket userid and group [done] %pre id cricket >/dev/null 2>&1 if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then /usr/sbin/groupadd cricket /usr/sbin/useradd -r -d %{_libdir}/%{name} -c "Cricket SNMP Monitor" cricket fi step 2. How do I unpack the cricket-1.0.5.tar.gz into the cricket account that has just been created, what commands do I use to do this ? The next steps from 2 onwards needs to go into the .specfile. Question: What section do they go under ? step 3. /bin/su - cricket step 4. /bin/ln -s cricket-1.0.5 cricket step 5. /bin/cp -rv cricket/sample-config cricket-config step 6. cd ~cricket step 7. cd cricket step 8. /bin/cp -v cricket-conf.pl.sample cricket-conf.pl Another question:- Q. How do I install the following Perl modules ?, what commands do I add to the .specfile ? You need to install the following Perl modules for Cricket to work correctly. Module From -------------------------------------------------------------------- MD5 CPAN: by-authors/id/GAAS/Digest-MD5-*.tar.gz LWP CPAN: by-authors/id/GAAS/libwww-perl-*.tar.gz DB_File CPAN: by-authors/id/PMQS/DB_File-*.tar.gz Date::Parse CPAN: by-authors/id/GBARR/TimeDate-*.tar.gz Time::HiRes CPAN: by-authors/id/DEWEG/Time-HiRes-*.tar.gz SNMP_Session http://www.switch.ch/misc/leinen/snmp/perl RRD http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool Project -> https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=cricket-1-0-5&project=home%3Adoiggl Thanks for your answers and time on this Glenn. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org