On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 03:02, Brian Connolly wrote: > Trying to install KDE 3.2 beta. I think I am getting an error. The > error is probably me. > > downloaded kde-i18n-3.1.94-0.2.src.rpm (it looked big enough to be the > right one) > opened the terminal in root > > [root@localhost root]# rpm -ivh kde-i18n-3.1.94-0.2.src.rpm > error: cannot create %sourcedir /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES Because you're trying to install a Source RPM (RPM) and not a normal RPM package. Instead, rpmbuild --rebuild kde-i18n-3.1.94-0.2.src.rpm If it completes successfully, you'll be left a lot of RPM packages sitting in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386 Ah! BTW, kde-i18n-3.1.94-0.2.src.rpm is NOT the Source RPM package for KDE 3.2, but for KDE 3.2 localization packages only. You'll need to get kdebase, kdelibs and company.
