Shell Command Problem
 

Hello,

I just installed Red Hat 9 on my Dell Inspiron 5100 laptop. Installation and everything went fine, although I need to install my internal ethernet card drivers seperatly.

So I got the drivers and unzipped them, my problem is I'm having trouble building it. Obviously, I'm still a noob so I'm basically just doing what the instructions tell me too.


The readme instructs to run the shell command:

rpmbuild -bb SPECS/bcm4400.spec



However I keep getting the error that there is no such command as rpmbuild.

I even tried taking away the build part and just leaving rpm -bb....

but then I get the error that -bb isn't a command either.



I'm running kernal 2.4.20 and the name of the ethernet card is Broadcom 440x.

Thanks for the help.

Become root (su -) before running rpmbuild ...

Try "which rpmbuild" ... it certainly should
be there ....

Cheers,
Tink

Thank you very much for the quick response. The "which rpmbuild" command got me somewhere but I still got an error which I can't explain:

[root@localhost redhat]# which rpmbuild -bb SPECS/bcm4400.spec
/usr/bin/which: invalid option -- b
/usr/bin/which: invalid option -- b
/usr/bin/which: no rpmbuild in (/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:
/usr/sbin:usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root bin)
./SPECS/bcmm4400.spec


This just looks like gibberish to me but probably not to you Linux gurus hehe.

Thanks again for any help.

No, it didn't ... it looks like you don't have rpmbuild
installed ... try a
which rpmb
(rpmbuild is just a symlink)

See?


Cheers,
Tink

Thanks for the help Tinkster...

However I also tried the rpmb command with the same result. Does this mean I still just havn't found the right command? I mean there has got to be a way to build this file. Do I just need to find the right build command to do it? Is it just hit or miss?

Thanks again.

well no, you'll just go download the rpmbuild package, or get it off your distros cd's...