help with rpm
 

hello, i downloaded this file called: "nasm.src.rpm" and i'm not sure if src.rpm is different from a normal rpm and well whenever i try to install it with rpm -i <filename> I get four warnings that look like this: "group eng does not exist - using root" "user hpa does not exist - using root" etc... error .

My other question is how do i know where rpm installs the files? The ultimate goal here is to get the nasm source so i can compile it and start programming in nasm, the biggest obstical is I'm new to linux.

Well you should probably get the regular (binary) RPM instead of the source RPM, preferably through your distro's package manager.

Further research said that src.rpm's can be built within rpm by using the --recompile option, however when i attempted this bash said that no such option existed. That is strange isn't it?

Anyways, about your post spoon, I know i could easily download the binaries but I have never compiled anything in linux and I think it would be fun to learn how to do it. I'm assuming that nasm is written in c or c++ and can be compiled with g++. I think I can accomplish this if it is true.

so you can use something like
to rebuild and install the source rpm