On Thursday 02 March 2006 01:00, M. Lewis decided we wanted to hear the following: > Thanks Taharka. Had I ever created an rpm, that would probably be a good > solution. Unfortunately I haven't and I didn't see any instructions > there for doing so. If you have a pointer to some instructions that > would be helpful. the instructions are at (nearly) the same location as the rpm... http://www.fedoranews.org/tchung/thunderbird/ including the source files you need to create your rpm. but in brief... This all applies to a user called 'stuart'. You'll need to adjust it for a *non-privileged* user on your system. Do NOT build rpms as the 'root' user. you can also use a directory name other than REDHAT. that's just what I tend to use. The other directory names (SPECS etc) are not customisable without a greate deal of messing about. 1. create a file in your home directory called .rpmmacros it should contain: %_topdir /home/stuart/REDHAT 2. now create a basic build tree mkdir -p /home/stuart/REDHAT/{RPMS,SRPMS,SOURCES,BUILD,SPECS} 3. put everything in place: put the thunderbird.spec file into /home/stuart/REDHAT/SPECS cp the 3 source files thunderbird-1.5.tar.gz, thunderbird.png and thunderbird.desktop into /home/stuart/REDHAT/SOURCES 4. now use the thunderbird.spec file to build the rpm: rpmbuild -bb /home/stuart/REDHAT/SPECS/thunderbird.spec which, if all goes well, should create loads of output and then eventually write the file /home/stuart/REDHAT/RPMS/i386/thunderbird-1.5-1.i386.rpm ps setting up the build environment as in steps 1 and 2 above can also be done by using yum to install a development-specific rpm. yum install fedora-rpmdevtools and then fedora-buildrpmtree I've just always done this manually... Regards Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA RHCX "Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away." - Robert Orben
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