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RE: [hobbit] Hobbit 4.0 RC6 now available
- To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
- Subject: RE: [hobbit] Hobbit 4.0 RC6 now available
- From: "Thiesfeld, Gordon" <GThiesfeld (at) webmd.net>
- Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 13:35:32 -0600
> It seems my Mandrake names libraries slightly different that what your
> Fedora does - I kind of expected this to happen. Could you try
> fetching the source RPM package (the one with .src.rpm extension) and
> rebuilding it into a binary package on your system ? It should be as
> simple as running
>
> rpmbuild --rebuild hobbit-4.0RC6-4.src.rpm
>
> and after a while it should generate an installable hobbit*.i386.rpm
> in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/
That worked, thanks for your help. I didn't realize that it would put the
files in different directories than /home/hobbit/ so I had a little trouble
with that. But I finally blew the contents of that directory away and did a
fresh install and it became clear. Oh well, it's a test box after all.
Would you like the RPM I built, Henrik?