amsn problem install

[Olaf Olson]

Andrew,

I believe that rpm -ta will build from a tarball, which ultimately does 
all the same stuff as rpm -ba, except that -ba assumes you have the 
src.rpm file and related stuff in its normal, untarred format. Although 
the man pages don't elaborate, I'd bet that the tarball has the SPECS 
file already contained and really just assumes you don't want any 
further customization.

I am fairly new to Linux and am really only an amateur, but I would 
guess that once a src.rpm file has been processed into the rpm package, 
it could be placed in a repository for others to use, right? I haven't 
gotten feedback from any of the repository masters, as to whether they'd 
like to take my rpm (or anyone's, for that matter) and make them 
available to the rest of the ydl community.

Olaf

Andrew wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 16:19, Andrew wrote:
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>>On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 15:59, Brian McKee wrote:
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>>>On Wednesday, October 27, 2004, at 03:26  PM, Andrew wrote:
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>>>>On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 15:03, Andrew wrote:
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>>>>>On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 17:43, bailux linux wrote:
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>>>>>>sameone run amsn on ydl 3.0,I did not get to install amsn,I need 
>>>>>>instant messenger to sahre with a msn.
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>>>>>The latest GAIM (v 1.0.1) will work with MSN protocol.
>>>>>Do you need instructions about how to build and install it?
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>>>>Wow, the GAIM team are workaholics!
>>>>They just pulled out v1.0.2 - Featuring (mostly) MSN related bug fixes.
>>>>I am building it as I wait for your reply. I will have clear & detailed
>>>>instructions ready by then (now that's my cup of the :))
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>>>Maybe you could post to the FAQ?  Would be helpful as future reference 
>>>for
>>>many I'm sure....
>>>
>>>Brian
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>>Ok its done building and its working sweet! <rpmbuild -ta> is
>>processing..... 
>>I've already posted "Compiling GAIM" to the FAQ but it need a little
>>update. Since GAIM is now in </usr/local/bin/gaim> instead of
>></usr/bin/gaim> ...minor stuffs..
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>I've just been to the FAQ site and Olaf Olson has done a better job than
>me with "Creating an RPM from source". As a side note he suggest
>"rpmbuild -ba" then talk about a SPECS file. I never say such file (??)
>I used "rpmbuild -ta" instead and (still) got a working application and 
>rpms, too. Is this a big deal?
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