On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 15:43 -0500, Mark Haney wrote: > There was a post on here a few days ago (and I've searched the archives > for it and can't find it about the steps needed to convert a tarball to > an RPM (or SRPM). Can someone point me to the archive or get me moving > in the right direction? The detailed way: http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/developers-guide/ch-rpm-building.html http://www.rpm.org/RPM-HOWTO/build.html Tarballs are source packages, .rpm are binary ones. You need to compile then. -- A powerfull GroupWare, CMS, CRM, ECM: CPS (Open Source & GPL). Opengroupware, SPIP, Plone, PhpBB, JetSpeed... are good: CPS is better. http://www.cps-project.org for downloads & documentation. Free hosting of CPS groupware: http://www.objectis.org.