how make rpm

Joe Klemmer klemmerj at webtrek.com
Tue Feb 3 21:19:26 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 08:14, Joachim Backes wrote:

> >  There is a source file > 
> >  http://spell.linux.sk/aspell/aspell-sk-0.50.3-1.2.tar.bz2
> >  How I make rpm from this file?
>
> there is a tool called "checkinstall" 
> 
>         http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/
> 
> checkinstall can produce binary RPMs.

	Also, check in the tarball to see if there's a .spec file in it.  If so
you can just do rpmbuild -ta aspell**** and it'll build it.

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