On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 12:56:11AM +0900, Dave Gutteridge enlightened us: > >The easiest way to do this is as root: > ># rpmbuild --rebuild foo-1.0-1.src.rpm > ># rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/foo-1.0-1.i386.rpm > > > > > Oh... I thought rebuilding RPMs involved a lot of programming knowledge > or something. Lord knows configuring and making binaries is tricky, at > least for a newbie. > Does that pattern you've written above apply for most package rebuilds? > Pretty much, yep. In general it goes like this: rpmbuild --rebuild foo-version.src.rpm rpmbuild -ba foo.spec rpmbuild -ta foo-version.tar.gz > >I went ahead and did this for giFTui-0.4.1 for you... > > > > > Hey, thanks! That's really cool of you. > > But, as is often the case with my Linux experience, I'm on to the next > error: > > [dave at localhost ~]$ giftui > giftui : No host to connect /apps/giftui/daemon/host. > *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x089f4448 *** > Aborted > > Perhaps giFTui is just too beta to be used by me. > Anyone recommend a good peer to peer software for all the non-bittorrent > networks, like gnutella and eDonkey? > Dunno, but on the giftui site you might want to check out the 2nd post on the main page and see if that fixes your problem. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263