Hello all, I decided to d/l the .src.rpms instead and build it myself. Usually this works quite fine. This time I'm having a few small problems though. All (so far) are with the building of the resulting rpms - compiling goes fine. When doing rpmbuild --rebuild libxslt-1.0.33-0.src.rpm I see: /usr/bin/install -c -m 0644 ./html/index.sgml /var/tmp/libxslt-1.0.33-build/usr/share/doc/libxslt-1.0.33/html /usr/bin/install: cannot stat `./html/index.sgml': No such file or directory make[2]: [install-data-local] Error 1 (ignored) compiling goes on, but then ends with: Finding Provides: /usr/lib/rpm/find-provides Finding Requires: /usr/lib/rpm/find-requires Requires(rpmlib): rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 Requires: libxslt = 1.0.33 libxml2-devel >= 2.5.6 /bin/sh Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files /var/tmp/libxslt-1.0.33-build error: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found: /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/libxslt.py /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/libxsltmod.a /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/libxsltmod.la /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/libxsltmod.so RPM build errors: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found: /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/libxslt.py /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/libxsltmod.a /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/libxsltmod.la /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/libxsltmod.so I've done it over and over to try to figure out exactly what goes wrong. The whole compile goes fine. It is only in the process of building the rpms that the problem occurs. The files it complains about are in fact there, and they are created by the build process. I tried various mods to the spec file too, with no luck. I also checked the spec file for the required packages to build, and made sure they are all installed as well as their -devel packages. Other packages: kde-base: + /usr/lib/rpm/suse_update_desktop_file.sh kate TextEditor ERROR: suse_update_desktop_file: unable to find kate + exit 1 error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.12911 (%install) Most of the errors are similar to this. Oh, and some of the specfiles mention kde3-devel-packages - there isn't such a package listed in Yast2? Any tips on how to get past this would be appreciated. Also, I thought of doing the compiling and then making the rpms with checkinstall, but as far as I can see checkinstall wouldn't split off the -devel package. Is there a way to use rpmbuild on an already compiled source directory? Thank you Kind regards Hans du Plooy hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za