Hi All, I am trying to get a cop 1

[CaKiwi]

Hi All,

I am trying to get a copy of the source of ifconfig. I have dowloaded net-tools-1.60.tar.bz2 and net-tools-1.60-2mdk.src.rpm but don't know how to extract the source out of them. My distro is Mandrake 8.1.

Thanks in advance. CaKiwi

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

If the tarball is a source tarball you just do :

$ cd your_download_directory
$ tar jxvf net-tools-1.60.tar.bz2
$ cd net-tools-1.60

For the srpm, you do :

# rpm -Uvh net-tools*.src.rpm
# cd /usr/src/Mandrake/SOURCES

You will probably then just find a similar tarball of the source there which you'd need to unpack similarly to the above (use 'zxvf' for a tar.gz instead of 'jxvf').

Normally when you build the rpm from source it will unpack on the fly (into /usr/src/Mandrake/BUILD) so thats why the source is not unpacked when you install the source rpm.

If you are interested, to build the binary rpm you do :

# cd /usr/src/Mandrake/SPECS
# rpm -bb --target=i686 net-tools.spec

When its finished the rpm will be in :

/usr/src/Mandrake/RPMS/i686

and you can install it in the usual way.

Hope this helps

 

[CaKiwi]

Hi ifincham,

Thanks for prompt and complete answer (as usual!). I'll try it tonight. CaKiwi