On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 02:16:30PM -0600, Paul Conn wrote: > Thanks for the help. Unfortunately this doesn't seem to work. I tried > installing YUM again and then immediately executed rpm -q but is shows YUM > to not be installed. Please see actual output below. > > # rpm -iv yum-2.4.1-1.src.rpm This does not install the software. This is analogous to doing tar -xzf yum-xxxxx.tar.gz It puts the stuff inside /usr/src/redhat where you can then muck with it. This is probably not what you want to do, but maybe it is. From there, you can build a binary rpm, which you then install on your system. > # rpm -q yum-2.4.1-1.src.rpm > package yum-2.4.1-1.src.rpm is not installed That's not how that command works. It queries the packages by package name, not by the filename they were installed with. For example: # mv foo-1.1.1-1.i386.rpm bar.rpm # rpm -i bar.rpm # rpm -q foo foo-1.1.1-1 This is fictitious output, obviously. However, the above point is the main one. Installing a source rpm does not install the software on your system. It installs the source so that you can play with it, not run it. -Michael -- Michael D. Stenner mstenner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ECE Department and Optical Sciences Center 520-626-1619 University of Arizona ECE 524G
