kde 3.1.1 Redhat 8

[Ragnar Wisloff]

Siterer Christopher Logan <bdeonline at msn.com>:

> I tried
> rpm -qa | grep build
> came back with
> rpm-build-4.1-1.06
> so I seem to have it I tied all of the latest ideas they all come
> back with 
> --target is not an option
> /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i686
> has nothing in it should it.
> 
> I have tried
> rpm --rebuild --target i686 kdebase-3.1.1-0.8x.src.rpm
> rpm --rebuild --target=i686 kdebase-3.1.1-0.8x.src.rpm
> rpm -rebuild -target i686 kdebase-3.1.1-0.8x.src.rpm
> rpm -rebuild -target=i686 kdebase-3.1.1-0.8x.src.rpm
> rpm --rebuild i686 kdebase-3.1.1-0.8x.src.rpm
> rpm -rebuild i686 kdebase-3.1.1-0.8x.src.rpm
> and so far none seem to work giving me problems, they all give me
> something 
> like
> --rebuild: unknown option
> or
> --target: unknown option
> 
> I think this should be preaty simple but still with no success.  I
> just want 
> to get it up and running with kde 3.1.1 I have kde 3.0.3 that came
> with 
> redhat already installed.

You've been slightly mislead here, not your fault ;-)

With version 8, Red Hat in their wisdom (?) decided to remove
--rebuild (and a few others) from the command 'rpm'. It now needs to
be invoked like this:

rpmbuild --rebuild filename.of.your.src.rpm


Try that.

Now, if you still have som stamina left you might want to check out
the project which builds KDE packages for Red Hat, and which utilises
apt-rpm to let you install it. No more downloading of separate rpms
and fiddling with dependencies. 

http://sourceforge.net/projects/kde-redhat/
http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/

If you install apt-rpm, you'll never look back :-)

Good luck!



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Mvh Ragnar Wisløff
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