[CentOS] slightly OT - gphpedit on CentOS 5?

Ray Leventhal centos at swhi.net
Tue Jun 3 12:51:52 UTC 2008


<snip>
> You might try RPMs for Fedora Core 7 (not a perfect match, but maybe
> close enough):
> ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/releases/7/Everything/i386/os/Fedora/gphpedit-0.9.91-3.fc6.i386.rpm
>
> Otherwise, try building the RPM yourself, it's not that hard.
>
> Basically, create a file named ~/.rpmmacros with this content:
>
> %_topdir %(eval echo "$HOME")/rpm
>
> Then create the directories:
>
> $ mkdir -p ~/rpm/{BUILD,RPMS/`uname -m`,SOURCES,SPECS,SRPMS}
>
> Then:
>
> $ rpmbuild --rebuild packagename.src.rpm
>
> In that case, try building the package for Fedora Core 9:
> ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/i386/os/Packages/gphpedit-0.9.91-4.fc9.src.rpm
>
> HTH,
> Filipe
>   
Hi Filipe,

Thank you *Very* much for the information.  I'd already successfully 
found and installed an rpm for FC6, but I'm really glad to have your 
reply as 'rolling my own' is definitely something I have to do from time 
to time and I'm very very very new at this.

Kind regards,
-Ray



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