fedora-buildrpmtree: command not found

teddyt · 12-19-2007, 10:06 AM

I have Fedora 7 on one computer and Fedora 8 on another. In Fedora 7, if I use the following commands, everything works as expected:

# yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
# yum install fedora-rpmdevtools
# fedora-buildrpmtree

In Fedora 8, the first two commands run without problems. The last gives me the error

-bash: fedora-buildrpmtree: command not found

I need to package a few programs for distribution to colleagues. This is my first attempt at making rpm's, so I could be missing something obvious.

Lenard · 12-19-2007, 10:46 AM

Looks like the /usr/bin directory is not part of your normal users path and you used su instead of su - to become root.

Root has no need for fedora-buildrpmtree as root can build rpms just fine already. The fedora-buildrpmtree is so normal users can build rpm packages without having to be root. As your normal user then from the virtual console or xterm session type:

/usr/bin/fedora-buildrpmtree

And a new directory (folder) will appear named rpmbuild which has the same sub-directory structure as the /usr/src/redhat directory.