> well I promised progress - well I went and read about RPM so I'd know what the > hell it was, and now am applying patch. I've got Fernando's kernel and ALSA > source, and I've put the patch in /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES and edited the alsa > driver spec file, adding that patch, (I had to manually create the redhat > directory in /usr/src - it wasn't there and rpm wouldn't create it > > and following directions on > http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/recompilealsa.html > > but I'm getting this wonderful thing: > bash: rpmbuild: command not found > > that was quite unexpected. I'm sure I'll figure this out eventually but I > thought it'd be smarter and faster to ask - what is happening? do I have a > partial RPM in my system? > > # rpm --version gives me: > RPM version 4.2 Hmmm, I guess you need rpm-build: # rpm -q -f /usr/bin/rpmbuild rpm-build-4.2-0.69 If you are on Planet CCRMA an "apt-get install rpm-build" should get it for you (and probably that's why you were missing /usr/src/redhat) -- Fernando
