Hello all Linux expert, i truly new to Linux. Few day ago, i try to install some software ended with src.rpm.

The terminal told me that cannot create /usr/src file. Basically, i have Selinux enabled and similar program installed. Moreover, i also secure the the root login which in /etc/securetty .

I installed in run-level 5.

I hope this all information can help you and me to solve this problem.

Another questions is i want to installed a program but need kernel source to build it which noted in Read me file. How to do this ?

Thanks for your help.

Your help is greatly appreciated by me and others.

scr.rpm is a source rpm. You cannot run it. You have to build it first. I would go back to wherever you got the src.rpm and get the regular rpm.

In Fedora if you want to compile stuff that has dependenceys you need the -devel version of that dependency. In this case kernel-devel is required. Be aware that every time you upgrade the kernel you will need to upgrade the kernel-devel.

What is kernel -devel ?

Thanks.

kernel-devel(no spaces)

The best answer probably come from yum info kernel-devel:

Name : kernel-devel
Arch : i686
Version: 2.6.21
Release: 1.3228.fc7
Size : 14 M
Repo : installed
Summary: Development package for building kernel modules to match the kernel.

Description:
This package provides kernel headers and makefiles sufficient to build modules
against the kernel package.

How to build the src.rpm file ?

Thanks for lazlow helps.

Peter

Unless you have an exceptions good reason it is not worth the effort. Just install the binary. It can get complicated.

Why u say so ? I could not understand.

I just want to learn how to compile the source rpm and after i will discard this techniques.

Your explanation is greatly appreciated by me and others.

A .src.rpm contains a minimum of two files: a .tar.gz (the source code) and a .spec (the instructions for rpm to build the source code into an installable binary .rpm).

When the .src.rpm is installed, it places the .tar.gz in /usr/src/.../SOURCES (the ... will be different in each distro. In RedHat, it's redhat; in SuSE it's packages; and so on).

The .spec file is placed in /usr/src/.../SPECS.

The usual procedure is to cd to /usr/src/.../SPECS, and run the command 'rpmbuild <filename>.spec, where <filename> is the name of the .spec file.

When the compiling is done, assuming no errors, the binary .rpm is placed in /usr/src/.../RPMS/arch/i386 (or one of the other folders in /arch). That's the .rpm to install. It's built for your system.