Dear kai I first opted for rpm but I wasn't able to make it possible because it always gave lot of dependencies errors. Build from source is successful but now I want to know how to give the installed libraries path to configure command of gcc On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Kai Ruottu <kai.ruottu@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 4.2.2013 6:35, Syed Ahsan Ali Bokhari kirjoitti: > > >> The problem on my machine is that for some reasons yum isn't working. >> Therefore I am not able to install package glibc-devel.i386 from >> repository. > > > The traditional way is to use RPM directly, instructions do exist, like : > > http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/rpminstall.html > > For bare unpacking (a'la 'zip', 'tar.gz', 'tar.bz2') there is rpm2cpio and > cpio : > > rpm2cpio <packagename>.rpm | cpio -idmuvB > > to extract the '.rpm' package into the current directory and its subdirs. > -- Engr. Syed Ahsan Ali Bokhari Electronic Engineer (EE) Research & Development Division Pakistan Meteorological Department H-8/2, Islamabad. Phone # off +92518358714 Cell # +923155145014 www.pmd.gov.pk
