you are right, the url suppose to show as html file rather than rpm . http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/3/srodzaj/2/search/aspell-0.60.3-7.1.src.rpm thanks for help. Jim Perrin wrote: > On 6/28/07, Centos <centos at unixplanet.biz> wrote: >> one more question, >> I couldn't find aspell srpm from centos , I have downloaded srpm from >> rpm.phone.net, > > Make sure you match your distribution when you do this. > >> but I got following error: >> >> rpm -i aspell-0.60.3-7.1.src.rpm >> error: open of <HTML> failed: No such file or directory >> error: open of <HEAD> failed: No such file or directory >> error: open of <TITLE>RPM failed: No such file or directory > > You didn't get the src.rpm, you got their webpage, named as a src.rpm. > You can verify this with 'file foo.src.rpm' > > >