Lee M Ward wrote:
Right. First of all: system-config-packages if of course precisely the GUI you were after. But I said that already.On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 20:12 +0900, Lee M Ward wrote:
What's up? I just downloaded and installed FC3 and I'm loving it so far.Most package management matters are easily resolved with yum or rpm.
Only two things I'm trying to figure out. First: Is there a any programs
on here like GnoRPM so I can manage my installed programs a little
better.
Perhaps you can be more specific.
Second: Why won't it let me install source RPMs? I tried a
couple and it keeps telling me I can't because of "system-config-
packages." Is there any way around this? Thank you for your help.
Your command and error message?
"The file xxxxxx is a source RPM which cannot be installed with
system-config-packages."
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to handle source RPMs. Not sure why. But: Are you sure you *want* to install them? Installing a source RPM basically means copying its spec file and *packaged* source (usually a .tar.gz file) to the hard disk; the process won't give you the source code in plain-file format or build anything. In most cases, you may just as well save the source rpm to disk instead, since unpacking or building directly from that is just as easy. Try "rpmbuild --rebuild <source rpm file>"...
How exactly did you do that? Note that the kernel-source package traditionally distributed with RH/FC, is a "binary" package containing source code files, which is not the same thing as a source rpm.I finally figured out how to get the kernel sources installed,
but I'm just wondering why
it won't install other sources to. This is mostly just a curiosity thing now, because I can
always download tar files of sources. I got another thing real quick...sorry, but I got a couple
programs that when I try to start them, they don't load. The "Starting xxx" comes on the bar, but
it never loads. Is that an FC issue or the program issue. I will say, the first few times, the program
did load w/o a problem, now it won't (I have uninstalled and reinstalled the program). Thanks for the help.
What program?
This does sound like an issue with the program itself...
- Toralf
