Hello All - On Tuesday 12 March 2002 19:32, Christopher Mahmood wrote:
If you take the 6.4 source rpm for zlib (ftp.suse.com//pub/suse/i386/update/6.4/zq1/libz.spm) do: rpm -ivh libz.spm cd /usr/src/packages/SPECS rpm -bb libz.spec
On Tuesday 12 March 2002 19:43, Jeremy Buchmann wrote:
Yes, there is an easy way to do it. Download the 6.4 SOURCE RPM (ends in .src.rpm)
type rpm --rebuild libz-1.1.3-575.src.rpm
This will compile libz and build a regular put the resulting RPM in /usr/src/packages/RPMS/i386/ (or whatever your arch is).
My thanks to both of you for your responses - I'll give these a shot, and hopefully squeeze some more life out of a machine that has served faithfully. If all goes well, you have saved me a headache. Many thanks.