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On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, John Ryan wrote:
--- Trey Gruel <drathos-suse@nightmoose.net> wrote: >
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?
I thought that these would install easier. I had already tried to install the aide tarball without success.
if available, the easiest way to install something is from a precompiled rpm (or deb, but that's not relevant to suse). the only downside is that the version supplied by the distro (suse, in this case) is usually a bit behind. on rpm based systems, my preferred priority for installing a package is rpm then src.rpm and finally tarball.
Where would I get a precompiled one?
you were close when you got the src.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/9.0/suse/i586/ the rpms in the i586 directory are all precompiled, so just install with rpm. you might also want to look into using the yast package manager for doing installations (other people will have to give tips for that as i've never actually used it). -- trey