"unzipping"/installing .rpm files on Linux

hunnybunny101 · 07-07-2003, 08:37 AM

Hi everyone,

I have got a program called "primer3-0.9.1.gcc.src.rpm that I would like to "unzip" (?) and install on a workstation running Red Hat 8.0.

How would I go about installing this type of program as I have only worked from .tar.gz files before?

Thanks in avance for any help!

Hunnybunny.

p0 theed · 07-07-2003, 08:39 AM

rpm -i primer3-0.9.1.gcc.src.rpm

hunnybunny101 · 07-07-2003, 08:48 AM

thanks....er...but this doesn't appear to be doing anything - it just keeps telling me "user luc does not exist - using root" and failing!

Any advice (please)?

garth_s · 07-07-2003, 08:53 AM

rpm -i /(location of file)/primer3-0.9.1.gcc.src.rpm

did you try that?

p0 theed · 07-07-2003, 08:55 AM

uhm idk, are u using root and running that command?

acid_kewpie · 07-07-2003, 08:59 AM

you've got a srouce (src) package there, so you wouldn't want to use that if possible, you'd want a presompiled rpm.

If you had to build that pacakge from source, you'd acutally want

rpm -ta primer3-0.9.1.gcc.src.rpm
or
rpm -tb primer3-0.9.1.gcc.src.rpm

not -i as that is only to install the files, not do anythign with them, like the source would require

hunnybunny101 · 07-07-2003, 09:01 AM

I'm logged in as root, yes.

still getting the same message when I try rpm -i /src of file/primer3***.rpm

???

I believe that a chap called Luc configured the original rpm file - might this have an impact if he put user priveleges on the package?

Thanks as always

HB

hunnybunny101 · 07-07-2003, 09:05 AM

have tried the rpm -i command on another "version" of primer 3 - this is called "primer3-0.9-1.gcc.i386.rpm"

The command seems to be doing something, but so far nothing else has been added to the directory where I am installing.

:S

HB.