Thanks everybody .... i was trying the obvious but wrong "yum install rpmbuild" and it was returning "no packages" then i tried "yum search rpmbuild", and again it returned many packages but not the rpm-build package :-P sorry about this dumb question, but im new to centos, yum and rpm's , etc ... thanks again l ... cheers, Nick Rodrigo Barbosa wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 01:59:51PM -0300, Nicholas Anderson wrote: > >> is it a package separated from rpm? >> > > Yes, the package is called rpm-build. > > -- Nicholas Anderson Administrador de Sistemas Unix LPIC-1 Certified Rede Fiocruz e-mail: nicholas at fiocruz.br