On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Tom Conway wrote: > I didn't have much luck installing LPRng, tried several rpm version and I > get an error on dependency libcom_err.so.3 If you want to use LPRng - you can do the following: wget ftp://ftp.lprng.com/pub/LPRng/LPRng/LPRng-3.8.27-1.src.rpm rpm -ih LPRng-3.8.27-1.src.rpm edit LPRng.spec and change: %{!?nokerberos:--enable-kerberos LDFLAGS="-L/usr/kerberos/lib" CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/kerberos/include" } to %{!?nokerberos:--enable-kerberos LDFLAGS="-L/usr/kerberos/lib" CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/kerberos/include -I/usr/include/et" } Now build the rpm with rpmbuild -ba LPRng.spec Install the built rpm with rpm -ivh --excludepath /etc/printcap LPRng-3.8.27-1.i386.rpm ---------- I do the build part of rpm in a non-root account with the following: -bash-2.05b$ cat ~/.rpmmacros %_topdir %(echo $HOME)/rpm %debug_package %{nil} -bash-2.05b$ and mkdir -p $HOME/rpm/SOURCES $HOME/rpm/SPECS $HOME/rpm/BUILD $HOME/rpm/SRPMS $HOME/rpm/RPMS/i386 Now LPRng.spec will be in ~/rpm/SPECS (after installing the .src.rpm) and LPRng-3.8.27-1.i386.rpm will be in ~/rpm/RPMS/i386 (after rpmbuild -ba) ---------- Satish
