On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, Keith Roberts wrote: > Thanks for all the responses! > > I've read MaximumRPM from: > > http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm-snapshot/index.html > > Which helped me a great deal. > > I'll start a new thread regarding using RPM to build > packages. You'll find MaximumRPM will have taught you a whole lot you didn't need to know (not that this is a bad thing). In this case, it really should have been a case of: yum install lame wget src.rpm rpmbuild --rebuild src.rpm rpm -Uvh --force shiny-new-binary.rpm No twiddling with the spec file was required, as it already auto-detected the presence of lame. jh