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Gui Xie

2005-02-01, 2:45 am


Hi:
I finished installing redhat 9 using the first three CDs. What is SRPMS
in the other three CDs? How can I install them? Thanks.

shyaki
2005-2-1


Starr

2005-02-01, 7:45 am

source code perhaps?

"Gui Xie" <g-xie@jaist.ac.jp> wrote in message
news:ctn364$4b1$1@jaist-news.jaist.ac.jp...
>
> Hi:
> I finished installing redhat 9 using the first three CDs. What is

SRPMS
> in the other three CDs? How can I install them? Thanks.
>
> shyaki
> 2005-2-1
>
>



John Thompson

2005-02-01, 5:49 pm

On 2005-02-01, Gui Xie <g-xie@jaist.ac.jp> wrote:

> I finished installing redhat 9 using the first three CDs. What is SRPMS
> in the other three CDs? How can I install them? Thanks.


Those are the source RPMs, in case you need to build your own packages.

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-John (john@os2.dhs.org)
Thor

2005-02-01, 5:49 pm

John Thompson wrote:

> On 2005-02-01, Gui Xie <g-xie@jaist.ac.jp> wrote:
>
>
> Those are the source RPMs, in case you need to build your own packages.
>



You'd use rpmbuild to do that..
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