On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Frank Reichenbacher spewed into the bitstream:
FR>Brett,
Uhm... the name's Chuck... :-)
FR>Thanks for your spewing, I think that's it.
FR>
FR>In Gnome RPM manager some of the RPM's are listed with a '(S)' after the
FR>name of the file, what is that?
FR>> Also... make sure you have the right kind of RPM's. if they end in
FR>>"src.rpm" then they are source RPM's and do not contain the binaries
FR>>you need though they may certainly be used to create them.
Here's an example:
This --->wmsound-0.9.5-2esd.num.src.rpm
would be used to create
this --->wmsound-0.9.5-2esd.num.i386.rpm
For detailed discussion regarding RPM's see:
http://www.rpm.org/RPM-HOWTO/index.html
In the above comparison you would want the second RPM which ends in
"i386.rpm" if your intent was to install software. If your intent was to
install source code then you would want the "src.rpm".
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