Re: SRPMS?

From: Andreas Korn (andreas.korn.NOSPAM_at_onlinehome.de)
Date: 05/28/04

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    Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 01:52:32 +0200

    MikeW <xmike87 wrote:
    > I have no prior experiance with linux, and am trying to learn as well as I
    > can. can someone tell me what SRPMS stands for? Thanks in advance,
    > Mike
    >
    >

    Source RPM.
    rpm files are the installable packages.
    The SRPM file cannot be installed to use directly but have to be build
    first into rpm file(s) which can be installed. To do this take a look at
    rpmbuild.

    Andreas

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