Tutoring to install rpm

[Ditzian]

I tried using kpackage.  I went to the folder where the two packages are.  I am logged in as user Jan, working from a folder on my Desktop.  Here is the result:

</home/jan/Desktop/Trusted_qsl/TrustedQSL-1.11-1.src.rpm';echo RESULT=$?
warning: user jbloom does not exist - using root
warning: group jbloom does not exist - using root
warning: user jbloom does not exist - using root
warning: group jbloom does not exist - using root
RESULT=0
 
I cannot find the program Trusted_qsl or TrustedQSL except for the source program.  I strongly suspect that the package is misconstructed such that the user who put it together left his own folder as the location for the program, but the result suggests that the program is somewhere. I did the searches starting at /.  Would I be better off creating a dummy user named jbloom, and then moving the program from there if I can find it?

Jan

[Old-Polack]

I tried using kpackage.  I went to the folder where the two packages are.  I am logged in as user Jan, working from a folder on my Desktop.  Here is the result:

</home/jan/Desktop/Trusted_qsl/TrustedQSL-1.11-1.src.rpm';echo RESULT=$?
warning: user jbloom does not exist - using root
warning: group jbloom does not exist - using root
warning: user jbloom does not exist - using root
warning: group jbloom does not exist - using root
RESULT=0
 
I cannot find the program Trusted_qsl or TrustedQSL except for the source program.  I strongly suspect that the package is misconstructed such that the user who put it together left his own folder as the location for the program, but the result suggests that the program is somewhere. I did the searches starting at /.  Would I be better off creating a dummy user named jbloom, and then moving the program from there if I can find it?

Jan

That's a src.rpm, used by a packager to create an installable package, not an installable package in it's own right. You need a different package, unless you know how to build .rpm packages, which it seems you don't.

[Ditzian]

O-P,

You are correct, I have no idea how to create an rpm.  I downloaded this one.  I have decided that this is not the way to go, and I will turn back to Windows. to handle this program.  I had hoped that when the ARRL said that they had a Linux package, I might be able to use it, but I do not have the skills for it, and it is just taking too much time.

Thank you to all for the help.

Jan

[Was_Just19]

O-P,

You are correct, I have no idea how to create an rpm.  I downloaded this one.  I have decided that this is not the way to go, and I will turn back to Windows. to handle this program.  I had hoped that when the ARRL said that they had a Linux package, I might be able to use it, but I do not have the skills for it, and it is just taking too much time.

Thank you to all for the help.

Jan

You just downloaded the wrong file I would say ....... you need the rpm and not the   source.rpm file, which you can install using KPackage.

regards.

[MBantz]

Just make a package suggest for this program (TrustedQSL) - in the "package suggest" part of this forum, read the sticky post first about how to suggest a package.

Do include a link to your src.rpm file as well - this will make the compilation for PCLinux much easier,

cheers,
MBantz