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#1
Member
Registered: May 2009
Location: mt vernon ohio
Distribution: opensuse 11.3
Posts: 129
Rep:
cp command help
ok I'm trying to install ipblock and the directions state...
To build Fedora Core or OpenSuSE packages copy the source tarball to
/usr/src/*/SOURCES and use the iplist.spec file which
is in the source tree.
# cp iplist-<version>.tar.gz /usr/src/*/SOURCES
# rpmbuild -ba iplist.spec
The build rpm and source rpm are located in
/usr/src/*/RPMS/<arch> and
/usr/src/*/SRPMS/, respectively.
and I think I'm having so much trouble is because I dont really have any knowledge of how the cp command works like for intense are the <> necessary and what does the star character do/mean? if someone could give a rundown of how it works using this as an example I would greatly appreciate it thanks
#2
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Registered: Jul 2007
Location: Scunthorpe, UK
Distribution: Ubuntu 8.10; Gentoo; Debian Lenny
Posts: 961
Rep:
Man page. To answer your question:
#3
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Registered: May 2009
Location: mt vernon ohio
Distribution: opensuse 11.3
Posts: 129
Original Poster
Rep:
I am already running as root under the su command but anyway when I put in
#4
Member
Registered: Jul 2007
Location: Scunthorpe, UK
Distribution: Ubuntu 8.10; Gentoo; Debian Lenny
Posts: 961
Rep:
Does that file exist?
#5
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Registered: May 2009
Location: mt vernon ohio
Distribution: opensuse 11.3
Posts: 129
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yes it does it's on the desktop I've even ran cd /home/vmplanet/desktop as I thought that this might be the problem but no I still get the same message
#6
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Registered: Mar 2006
Location: Sydney, Australia
Distribution: Fedora, CentOS, OpenSuse, Slack, Gentoo, Debian, Arch, PCBSD
Posts: 6,678
Rep:
Try cp /home/vmplanet/desktop/iplist-0.26.tar.gz /usr/src/*/SOURCES, but it may be the destination that doesn't exist. What does "ls -l /usr/src" give you
#7
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Registered: May 2009
Location: mt vernon ohio
Distribution: opensuse 11.3
Posts: 129
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ran it and it gave me the same thing well here's the info you requested
#8
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Registered: Jul 2007
Location: Scunthorpe, UK
Distribution: Ubuntu 8.10; Gentoo; Debian Lenny
Posts: 961
Rep:
The error is for the file specified. Do me a favour and paste in the command exactly, and do me a:
for the actual directory this file is in
EDIT:
By which I mean, paste in exactly which cp command you're using, and the result of the above
#9
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Registered: Mar 2006
Location: Sydney, Australia
Distribution: Fedora, CentOS, OpenSuse, Slack, Gentoo, Debian, Arch, PCBSD
Posts: 6,678
Rep:
What was that a response to?
#10
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Registered: May 2009
Location: mt vernon ohio
Distribution: opensuse 11.3
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and what do you mean which cp command? I just type cp iplist-0.26.tar.gz /usr/src/*/SOURCES
Last edited by threatingbehaviour; 06-02-2009 at 10:02 PM .
#11
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Location: mt vernon ohio
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and the directory the extracted file is in is /home/vmplanet/ipblock/iplist-0.26
#12
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Registered: May 2009
Location: mt vernon ohio
Distribution: opensuse 11.3
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sorry is this what you needed
#13
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Registered: May 2009
Location: mt vernon ohio
Distribution: opensuse 11.3
Posts: 129
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sorry billymayday typed the wrong thing in this is what it gave me
#14
LQ Guru
Registered: Mar 2006
Location: Sydney, Australia
Distribution: Fedora, CentOS, OpenSuse, Slack, Gentoo, Debian, Arch, PCBSD
Posts: 6,678
Rep:
What does
ls -l /usr/src/packages
show?
Hint - show the command with your post response so it's clear to us what command you were using, e.g.
Code:
# ls -l /usr/src/redhat
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 May 23 17:09 BUILD
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jan 21 19:04 RPMS
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 3 10:33 SOURCES
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 27 21:48 SPECS
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 23 17:12 SRPMS
#15
Member
Registered: May 2009
Location: mt vernon ohio
Distribution: opensuse 11.3
Posts: 129
Original Poster
Rep:
opensuse-vm:/home/vmplanet/desktop # ls -l /usr/src/packages
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