rpm package manager

**Dswissmiss** · 10-16-2002, 09:51 PM

hi everyone...

i downloaded fluxbox.src.rpm, and trying to use kpackage to install the file. however after installation, when i try to find out if it was successful, by hitting the reload button, fluxbox does not appear anywhere. same thing happens when i try installing again by hitting the install marked button...any ideas?
please let me know if you need more information

thank you
Dswissmiss

**Schotty** · 10-16-2002, 10:26 PM

well what distro? If redhat 8, Kernel killer has a really nice pet on adding a wm to gdm and kdm .

**Dswissmiss** · 10-16-2002, 10:37 PM

oops...mandrake 9.0

**Schotty** · 10-16-2002, 10:49 PM

Okay, Rick --- where the hell are ya? Yoohooo!

Rick is as big of a Mandrake slut as I am a RedHat slut. He WILL know how.

**rick420** · 10-17-2002, 01:38 AM

[quote author=Dswissmiss link=board=2;threadid=5351;start=0#52076 date=1034805081]
hi everyone...

i downloaded fluxbox.src.rpm, and trying to use kpackage to install the file. however after installation, when i try to find out if it was successful, by hitting the reload button, fluxbox does not appear anywhere. same thing happens when i try installing again by hitting the install marked button...any ideas?
please let me know if you need more information

thank you
Dswissmiss
[/quote]

Well thats a .src.rpm , you would need to do

Code:

 rpm --rebuild fluxbox.src.rpm

That will make the .src.rpm into a regular .rpm . It will be in the /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i386 directory. Then cd into that directory and type

Code:

 rpm -ivh fluxbox.rpm

Any errors post em back - good luck

**Dswissmiss** · 10-17-2002, 04:48 AM

thanx guys, i thought that i could just install it with kpackage, i get the same instructions you gave me on the site i donloaded the file from, but im still having problems. i cd' to the directory the file is in, become super user, then type the "rebuild" command. i then get /usr/lib/rpm/rpmb: no such file or directory. the site also tells me that i need rpm-build, spec-helper and libtool, so i downloaded them from software management within mandrake. could it be that they didnt install correctly, or is it something else?

thank you

**Schotty** · 10-17-2002, 05:16 PM

Well on RedHat, to install an rpm, you need root prriveledges. Once you get that far, a simple rpm -Uvh nameofrpm.rpm will upgrade/install the package.

Could you copy a snippet of what you are doing, and the response your PC gave you? Like this ::

Code:

[aschott@system11 aschott]$ sudo rpm -Uvh wm-icons-0.3.0-1.noarch.rpm 
Password:
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:wm-icons               ########################################### [100%]
[aschott@system11 aschott]$

That is a sucessful RPM install.