ah ha! thank you you rock --------------------------------------------------------------- Houston Poetry Slam Team www.houstonpoetryslam.com NQuit Records www.nquit.com --------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano" <nando@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano" <nando@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 7:53 PM Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] applying patch for HDSP 9652 > > 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 > >