On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Jud Craft <craftjml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've enabled the updates-source and fedora-source repositories in > PackageKit, but how do I, for example, install the source package for > Cairo? > > A packagekit search for Cairo returns nothing from the updates-source > or fedora-source repositories, and nothing called "cairo-source" or > anything of the like. Just binary cairo and cairo-devel. > > In short, how do I install source packages? Have I missed an obvious > step or is it really unintuitive? The easiest way to do this IME is: 1. Ensure 'yum-utils' is installed 2. Run 'yumdownloader --source cairo' 3. 'rpm -ivh cairo-*.src.rpm' The resulting .spec file and source will be under ~/rpmbuild/ . -- Paul -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel