Hi,
I have CentOS 4.3. On install, I chose the 'Personal Desktop' option without bothering about customizing. I'm on dialup, so I try to choose a mixture of rpm and yum, e. g. I do 'yum install something', take a peek at what is needed, and then install as much as I can from the CD's using rpm -ivh.
I want to build an app (cdlabelgen and its frontend gtkcdlabel) from a source RPM, since the binary has a few encoding weirdnesses. I've never built a source RPM (using Slack before), now I wonder: what tools (packages) do I need for this, besides rpm-build, gcc, autoconf etc.?
Niki Kovacs
--- Niki Kovacs contact@kikinovak.net wrote:
I want to build an app (cdlabelgen and its frontend gtkcdlabel) from a source RPM, since the binary has a few encoding weirdnesses. I've never built a source RPM (using Slack before), now I wonder: what tools (packages) do I need for this, besides rpm-build, gcc, autoconf etc.?
Niki Kovacs
1. Search google for "how to rpmbuild". I can see excellent documents on the subject.
2. Do the following command to install the development tools.
# yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
See man yum for more info.
3. Install the fedora-rpmdevtools to build rpms as non-root.
4. Enjoy!
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Mike Stankovic wrote on Mon, 15 May 2006 10:17:16 -0700 (PDT):
# yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
Where does one get the names of the available groups?
Kai
Thanks!
Kai
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