Recently when using RPM, it displays a warning that the user/group "dude" does not exist. I tried this with apt, xine and mplayer rpms from shrike.freshrpms and I keep getting these messages. It does not display an error but the package doesn't seem to be installed.

Here's how the installation look like for apt. What should I do? Is there a need to set up the user/group dude? Thanks for all your help!

# rpm -ivh apt-0.5.5cnc6-fr1.src.rpm
warning: apt-0.5.5cnc6-fr1.src.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e42d547b
warning: user dude does not exist - using root
warning: group dude does not exist - using root
warning: user dude does not exist - using root
warning: group dude does not exist - using root
warning: user dude does not exist - using root
warning: group dude does not exist - using root
warning: user dude does not exist - using root
warning: group dude does not exist - using root
warning: user dude does not exist - using root
warning: group dude does not exist - using root
warning: user dude does not exist - using root
warning: group dude does not exist - using root
warning: user dude does not exist - using root
warning: group dude does not exist - using root
warning: user dude does not exist - using root
warning: group dude does not exist - using root
warning: user dude does not exist - using root
warning: group dude does not exist - using root
warning: user dude does not exist - using root
warning: group dude does not exist - using root
1:apt ########################################### [100%]
# apt-get update
bash: apt-get: command not found
# rpm -qa | grep -i apt
<returns nothing>

This is the source RPM. It installs into the sources directory to be compiled into an RPM on your machine that you can then install. Probably into
/usr/src/redhat/SRPMS
Did you want to recompile the source on your machine or did you actually want to install the executable of apt-get?

RO

here is what I would try, adjust target for your system ..


rpmbuild --rebuild --target=i686 filename.src.rpm


look at this for the file that may have installed


ls /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i686

if you see it then run this

rpm -iv /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i686/filename.rpm


if target is not accepted then omit it and look for the file in one of the folders in RPMS/

That's right. I thought I downloaded the binary, didn't notice the "src".

I tried rebuilding but I still get the warning about user/group dude thing. Is that normal? It seems to proceed to compile, but in the end I get the following message:

collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [cdrom] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/apt-0.5.5cnc6/methods'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.53338 (%build)


RPM build errors:
user dude does not exist - using root
group dude does not exist - using root
user dude does not exist - using root
group dude does not exist - using root
user dude does not exist - using root
group dude does not exist - using root
user dude does not exist - using root
group dude does not exist - using root
user dude does not exist - using root
group dude does not exist - using root
user dude does not exist - using root
group dude does not exist - using root
user dude does not exist - using root
group dude does not exist - using root
user dude does not exist - using root
group dude does not exist - using root
user dude does not exist - using root
group dude does not exist - using root
user dude does not exist - using root
group dude does not exist - using root
Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.53338 (%build)

Thanks for your help!

the user error is ok, but the failure is due to something else. maybe try the tar file or binary.