Error while installing .rpm file
 

i have downloaded this .rpm files from net

squid-2.5.STABLE5-4.fc2.src.rpm
system-config-samba-1.2.15-0.fc2.1.src.rpm

when i executing the following command,
# rpm -U squid-2.5.STABLE5-4.fc2.src.rpm

then its showing following error

error: cannot create %sourcedir /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES

What should i do to remove this error.

are you doing this as root?

If so check to see that the directory /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES exists.

if it doesn't, a simple

mkdir /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/ will work.

Then install the rpm with rpm -Uvh filename.rpm

i have created the \usr\src\redhat\SOURCES\ ,but still the same error occurs.

please give me the way out.

you don't want to use those packages (at least not in the way you are trying to use them) as they are source files, not prebuilt progams. find a copy without "src" in the name, probably "i386" or "i686" instead.