On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net> wrote: > On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:29:01 +0200 > Rudi Ahlers <Rudi at SoftDux.com> wrote: > > > I build mine as root ( a normal user account gave me some erorrs), and > > all seems well? > > Use yum to install rpmdevtools. Then rpmdev-setuptree will do all of the work > that's required to build rpms as a user. I suppose rpmdevtools is only available from EPEL. But the following procedures will do the job: cd mkdir -p rpmbuild/{BUILD,RPMS,SOURCES,SPECS,SRPMS} echo "%_topdir %(echo $HOME)/rpmbuild" > .rpmmacros Then as root, yum install rpm-build Akemi